What is the meaning of Werdnig-Hoffman disease?

noun

  • 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. .
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