Crossword clues for dystrophy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also distrophy, "defective nutrition," 1858, from Modern Latin dystrophia, distrophia, from Greek dys- "hard, bad, ill" (see dys-) + trophe "nourishment" (see -trophy). Related: Dystrophic.
Wiktionary
n. A wasting of body tissues, of genetic origin or due to inadequate or defective nutrition.
WordNet
n. any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles [syn: muscular dystrophy]
any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition
Wikipedia
Dystrophy is the degeneration of tissue, due to disease or malnutrition, most likely due to heredity.
Usage examples of "dystrophy".
Moreover, the Deconstructionists are playing the Ritz, one of the modeling agencies is sponsoring a bash for Muscular Dystrophy at Magique and Natalie has cornered a chunk of the Gross National Product of Bolivia.
A very similar situation happened with muscular dystrophy, which was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s.
Marie regards the disease as a systemic dystrophy analogous to myxedema, due to a morbid condition of the pituitary body, just as myxedema is due to disease of the thyroid.
Why did he gift them with these deformities, why not merely with old-fashioned spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or retardation or fetal alcohol syndrome?
But then, no human being should have to have cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy or leukemia.
Then the same thing took place in malignant hypertension, in Parkinsonism and other failures of the central nervous system, in muscular dystrophy, and so on, and so on.
But anyone with a disease like this, including multiple sclerosis or muscular dystrophy, could gain an awful lot of benefit if their muscles were strengthened by healing energy.
Roberta had known a girl with muscular dystrophy back in junior high.
Trask's reference to animal-rights activists prompted her to recall that last year a group of protestors who'd stolen rabbits being used for medical research had destroyed a five-year experiment that might have resulted in a cure for muscular dystrophy.
And if the retard happened to be a mentally normal boy with muscular dystrophy?
Her mother has three other children at home, two with muscular dystrophy.
I'm telling you, man, I started worrying that maybe I had lupus, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's.
According to the Osage Indians, they were approached by a white horse-doctor called Grant who was dying of some kind of wasting disease, muscular dystrophy probably.
His mouth was drawn back at the corners, resembling the transverse laugh of progressive muscular dystrophy.
The muscular dystrophy has weakened him but his vital signs are strong and, aside from fatigue, he is in no worse condition than when we left Lychen.