Duchenne's disease

Duchenne's disease

 [du-shenz´]

1. spinal muscular atrophy.

2. bulbar paralysis.

3. tabes dorsalis.

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Duchenne's disease

Any of a number of conditions described by or otherwise linked to Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (1806–1875):
(1) Duchenne muscular dystrophy, see there;
(2) Progressive muscular atrophy, see there (also known as Aran-Duchenne disease);
(3) Erb-Duchenne paralysis, upper brachial plexus paralysis; 
(4) Tabes dorsalis, see there;  
(5) Spinal muscle atrophy, see there.

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