Usually means: Genetic disorders weakening and degenerating muscles.
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  1. muscular dystrophy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muscular dystrophy: Merriam-Webster
  3. muscular dystrophy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. muscular dystrophy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muscular dystrophy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. muscular dystrophy: Vocabulary.com
  7. muscular dystrophy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. muscular dystrophy: Wiktionary
  9. muscular dystrophy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. muscular dystrophy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. muscular dystrophy: Dictionary.com
  12. Muscular Dystrophy, Muscular dystrophy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. muscular dystrophy: Rhymezone
  14. muscular dystrophy: FreeDictionary.org
  15. muscular dystrophy: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. muscular dystrophy: Legal dictionary
  2. muscular dystrophy: Financial dictionary

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  1. muscular dystrophy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. muscular dystrophy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dystrophy, muscular, Muscular dystrophy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. Muscular dystrophy: Merck Manuals
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  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. Muscular dystrophy: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
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  12. muscular dystrophy: Medical dictionary
  13. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  14. Dystrophy, muscular, Muscular dystrophy: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (muscular dystrophy)

noun:  (pathology) A group of genetic diseases which cause progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue.

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