werdnig-hoffman disease

Noun werdnig-hoffman disease has 1 sense

• werdnig-hoffman disease(n = noun.state) - 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;
is a kind of autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease