Dystrophy

//ˈdɪstɹəfi//

Synonyms for "dystrophy" (2 found)

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muscular dystrophy

Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

muscular dystrophy

Related word relations

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More general

10 entries

congenital disease degenerative disorder genetic abnormality genetic defect genetic disease genetic disorder hereditary condition hereditary disease inherited disease inherited disorder

Synonyms

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muscular dystrophy

derived

18 entries

Duchenne muscular dystrophy algodystrophy chondrodystrophy corneal dystrophy dystrophic dystrophin epithelial dystrophy hemidystrophy leukodystrophy lipodystrophy muscular dystrophy myodystrophy myotonic dystrophy onychodystrophy osteodystrophy polydystrophy

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is a

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degenerative disorder genetic condition illness life threatening condition

related to

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genetic nutrition tissue wasting

Translations

24 translations across 20 languages.

Arabic

1 entries

ضُمُور noun (dystrophy)

Catalan

1 entries

distròfia noun (dystrophy)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

萎縮症 /萎缩症 noun (dystrophy)

Estonian

1 entries

düstroofia noun (dystrophy)

Finnish

4 entries

dystrofia noun (dystrophy)
rappeuma noun (dystrophy)
rappeutuminen noun (dystrophy)
surkastuma noun (dystrophy)

French

1 entries

dystrophie noun (dystrophy)

German

1 entries

Dystrophie noun (dystrophy)

Greek

1 entries

δυστροφία noun (dystrophy)

Indonesian

1 entries

distrofi noun (dystrophy)

Irish

1 entries

diostróife noun (dystrophy)

Italian

1 entries

distrofia noun (dystrophy)

Japanese

1 entries

ジストロフィー noun (dystrophy)

Persian

1 entries

دشپروردگی noun (dystrophy)

Polish

1 entries

dystrofia noun (dystrophy)

Portuguese

1 entries

distrofia noun (dystrophy)

Russian

1 entries

дистрофи́я noun (dystrophy)

Slovak

1 entries

dystrofia noun (dystrophy)

Spanish

1 entries

distrofia noun (dystrophy)

Swedish

1 entries

dystrofi noun (dystrophy)

Vietnamese

1 entries

sự loạn đường noun (dystrophy)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 2013.

Source: tatoeba (4497255)

Muscular dystrophy is an incredibly rare, but extremely serious disease.

Source: tatoeba (8160740)

Other types of antisense oligonucleotides have been approved by U.S. regulators and are being used to treat the neurodegenerative disease muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy. The compound is in clinical trials for Huntington’s disease and ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Source: tatoeba (12257415)

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