werdnig-hoffman disease

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 114193552)
    is a type of: autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease - a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome

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