Kennedy's disease

noun

Ken·​ne·​dy's disease ˈken-əd-ēz- 

variants also Kennedy disease

-əd-ē- 

: a progressive muscular and neurological disorder that is characterized especially by muscular weakness and atrophy and by neural degeneration, that is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait, and that chiefly affects adult males

called also spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy