muscular dystrophy

Questions about muscular dystrophy

What is another word for muscular dystrophy?

It depends which muscular dystrophy you mean. In the sense “any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles”, the synonyms are dystrophy. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of muscular dystrophy?

WordNet records no antonym for muscular dystrophy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for muscular dystrophy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of muscular dystrophy

• Full entry for muscular dystrophyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for muscular dystrophyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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