myotonia atrophica

Noun myotonia atrophica has 1 sense

• myotonia atrophica(n = noun.state) myotonic dystrophy, myotonic muscular dystrophy, steinert's disease - 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;
is a kind of dystrophy, muscular dystrophy