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werdnig-hoffman disease
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Noun werdnig-hoffman disease has 1 sense
- werdnig-hoffman disease(n = noun.state) - 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 a kind of autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease
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