werdnig-hoffman disease

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   autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood

   Broaderautosomal recessive disease

Questions about werdnig-hoffman disease

What does werdnig-hoffman disease mean?

werdnig-hoffman disease means "autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood".

Is werdnig-hoffman disease a common word?

werdnig-hoffman disease 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.