limb-girdle muscular dystrophy
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1. an autosomal recessive form of muscular dystrophy that appears anywhere from late childhood to middle age; characterized by progressive muscular weakness beginning either in the shoulder or pelvic girdle; usually progresses slowly with cardiopulmonary complications in the later stages (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | dystrophy, muscular dystrophy, |
| definition | : | any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles (noun.state) |
| hypernym | : | autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease, |
| definition | : | a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome (noun.state) |
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