myotonic dystrophy
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n.
A chronic, slowly progressing, inherited disease that usually manifests its first symptoms when individuals reach their 30s, characterized by a wasting of the muscles, failing vision, opacity of the lens of the eyes, ptosis, slurred speech, and general muscular weakness.myotonia atrophica Steinert's disease
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Words nearby myotonic dystrophy
myotome, myotomy, myotonia, myotonia atrophica, myotonia congenita, myotonic dystrophy, myotonoid, myotonus, myotony, myotrophy, myotube
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