becker muscular dystrophy

Noun becker muscular dystrophy has 1 sense

• becker muscular dystrophy(n = noun.state) - a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males);
is a kind of dystrophy, muscular dystrophy