Medical Dictionary
spinal muscular atrophy
noun
Medical Definition of SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY
: any of several inherited disorders (as Kugelberg-Welander disease) that are characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord resulting in muscular weakness and atrophy and that in some forms (as Werdnig-Hoffmann disease) are fatal
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