dystrophy
pronunciation
How to pronounce dystrophy in British English:
UK ['dɪstrəfɪ]
How to pronounce dystrophy in American English:
US [ˈdɪstrəfi]
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- Noun:
- any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
- any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition
Word Origin
- dystrophy (n.)
- also distrophy, "defective nutrition," 1858, from Modern Latin dystrophia, distrophia, from Greek dys- "hard, bad, ill" (see dys-) + trophe "nourishment" (see -trophy). Related: Dystrophic.
Example
- 1. These results may lead to the development of drugs to treat corneal dystrophy in the future .
- 2. Clinical application of prenatal gene diagnosis of duchenne and becker muscular dystrophy .
- 3. A case study of art therapy intervention on a female with muscular dystrophy and self-injury behavior .
- 4. In november advanced cell technology , of massachusetts , won approval for the trial of a treatment for stargardt 's macular dystrophy , a disease that destroys retinal cells in children .
- 5. Direct injection is also being used in gene-therapy trials on patients with parkinson 's and on those with muscular dystrophy .