oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy
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1. 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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | dystrophy, muscular dystrophy, |
| definition | : | any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles (noun.state) |
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