单词 | myotonic dystrophy |
释义 | myotonic dystrophyn. Medicine. A relatively common form of muscular dystrophy, characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance, weakness and wasting of muscles of the face, neck, and forearms, localized myotonia, cataracts, gonadal atrophy and frontal balding (in men), and various other abnormalities. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > myotonia > disease characterized by congenital myotonia1886 myotonia congenita1887 Thomsen's disease1890 myotonia atrophica1908 dystrophia myotonica1923 myotonic dystrophy1929 myotonia dystrophica1956 1929 Arch. Ophthalmol. 1 335 Myotonic dystrophy, dystrophia myotonica or myotonia atrophica was first identified as a clinical entity in 1890. 1938 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 62 188 A clinical study of myotonic dystrophy and myotonia congenita. 1967 Arch. Neurol. (Chicago) 16 181/1 Familial myotonic dystrophy usually has its onset in adult life and shows myotonia and muscle wasting as its principle characteristics. 1992 Sci. Amer. May 34/1 Myotonic dystrophy..seems to get worse in successive generations. 2002 Endocrinology 143 3017 Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common inherited adult neuromuscular disorder. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1929 |
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