myotonic muscular dystrophy

Noun
  1. A severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck;
    Difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips;
    The onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow;
    Inheritance is autosomal dominant (synset 114186664)
    is a type of: dystrophy, muscular dystrophy - any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
    same as: myotonia atrophica, myotonic dystrophy, steinert's disease

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