werdnig-hoffman disease
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1. 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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease, |
| definition | : | a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome (noun.state) |
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