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Muscular dystrophy is a type of genetic disorder. The disorder weakens the muscles until they can no longer move. People with this disorder do not produce a protein needed for healthy muscles.
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∙ 8y agoIt is a genetic disorder.
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Can you name a muscular disorder similar to but not muscular dystrophy?
Fibromyalgia.
What is muscular dystrophy?
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.
What are muscular dystrophy's?
A genetic disorder that weakens the muscle
What is dystrophy?
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a genetic disorder that weakens the muscles that help the body move.
What disorder is characterized by a lack of protein dystrophin?
Muscular Dystrophy
What's Muscular dystrophy?
A genetic disorder that weakens the muscle
What sex link is a recessive disorder?
Muscular dystrophy is a sex-linked recessive disorder.
What is the most common and most severe type of muscular dystrophy in children?
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Which type of disoreder is muscular disorder?
That would depend on the type of muscular disorder.
Which type of muscular dystrophy is X-linked?
Duchenne
Is muscular dystrophy and duchenne muscular dystrophy the same?
Muscular dystrophy can appear in infancy up to middle age or later, and its form and severity are determined in part by the age at which it occurs. Some types of muscular dystrophy affect only males; some people with MD enjoy a normal life span with mild symptoms that progress very slowly; others experience swift and severe muscle weakness and wasting, dying in their late teens to early 20s.
What is an illness condition related to the muscular system?
Muscular dystrophy is one. It is typically an inherited disorder that causes degeneration of the skeletal muscles.
