muscular dystrophy

Questions about muscular dystrophy

What does muscular dystrophy mean?

muscular dystrophy means "any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles".

What is another word for muscular dystrophy?

Close synonyms include dystrophy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muscular dystrophy a common word?

muscular dystrophy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.