oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

Noun oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy has 1 sense

• oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy(n = noun.state) - a form of muscular dystrophy that usually begins between early adulthood and middle age and first affects muscles of the eyelid and throat; progresses slowly with swallowing problems common as the disease progresses; inheritance is autosomal dominant;
is a kind of dystrophy, muscular dystrophy