Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Duchenne muscular dystrophy Variant:
also Duchenne's muscular dystrophy Function:
noun : a severe progressive form of muscular dystrophyof males that appears in early childhood, affects the muscles of the legs before those of the arms and the proximal muscles of the limbs before the distal ones, is inherited as an X-linked recessivetrait, is characterized by complete absence of the protein dystrophin, and usually has a fatal outcome by age 20 —abbreviation
DMD—see
BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
