“muscular atrophy”

The following 3 entries include the term muscular atrophy.

peroneal muscular atrophy

noun

spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

noun

spinal muscular atrophy

noun

: any of several inherited disorders (as Kugelberg-Welander disease) that are characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in muscular weakness and atrophy and that in some forms (as Werdnig-Hoffmann disease) are fatal


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