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dystrophy
 
Noun dystrophy has 2 senses
  1. muscular dystrophy, dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
    --1 is a kind of genetic disease, genetic disorder, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, congenital disease, inherited disease, inherited disorder, hereditary disease, hereditary condition
    --1 has particulars:
     Becker muscular dystrophy; distal muscular dystrophy; Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, pseudohypertrophic dystrophy; limb-girdle muscular dystrophy; myotonic muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, myotonia atrophica, Steinert's disease; oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
  2. dystrophy - any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition
    --2 is a kind of     degenerative disorder
    --2 has particulars: osteodystrophy
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