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Meanings of dystrophy in English

Portuguese
distrofia
Catalan
distròfia muscular
Spanish
distrofia muscular

Any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles.

distrofia
Usage of dystrophy in English
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Protein-replacement therapy offers a promising approach for the treatment of muscular dystrophy.
Pubmed
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The company is studying Iplex as a potential treatment for muscular dystrophy.
Reuters
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Muscle hypertrophy and muscle weakness are well known in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Pubmed
4
On March twenty-fourth Marshall was at a muscular dystrophy fund-raiser in Summerville.
Break No Bones
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Her reflex sympathetic dystrophy prevented her running, so she turned to archery.
The Guardian
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We present here the first prenatal diagnosis in beta-sarcoglycan muscular dystrophy.
Pubmed
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The phenotype in this family with SCA7 is that of a cone-rod dystrophy.
Pubmed
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Patients with muscular dystrophy have abnormal cardiac function and decreased high-energy phosphate metabolism.
Pubmed
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The offspring had both muscular dystrophy and high levels of PGC-1alpha.
Wired
10
The peripheral retina showed a faster progression of dystrophy than the central retina.
Pubmed
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They range from color blindness to autism, muscular dystrophy to leukemia and hemophilia.
Wired
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Allelic mutations in these genes might also cause milder limb-girdle muscular dystrophy phenotypes.
Pubmed
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However, cardiomyopathy is rarely the predominant clinical feature of this form of muscular dystrophy.
Pubmed
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Thornton said people with myotonic dystrophy have all the ingredients for a healthy body.
Reuters
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No patient had a family history of hereditary retinal dystrophy.
Pubmed
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Our data suggest that a novel form of muscle dystrophy in mice is alpha5-integrin-dependent.
Pubmed
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Portuguese
distrofia
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