huntington's disease

English Thesaurus

1. hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia (noun.state)

hypernym	:	monogenic disease, monogenic disorder,
definition	:	an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes (noun.state)

hypernym	:	chorea,
definition	:	any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs (noun.state)

hypernym	:	autosomal dominant disease, autosomal dominant disorder,
definition	:	a disease caused by a dominant mutant gene on an autosome (noun.state)