Search Result for "werdnig-hoffman disease":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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;


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Werdnig-Hoffman disease n 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