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dystrophia

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dystrophia /dys·tro·phia/ (-tro´fe-ah) [Gr.] dystrophy.
dystrophia adiposogenita´lis  adiposogenital dystrophy.
dystrophia epithelia´lis cor´neae  dystrophy of the corneal epithelium, with erosions.
dystrophia myoto´nica  myotonic dystrophy.
dystrophia un´guium  changes in the texture, structure, and/or color of the nails due to no demonstrable cause, but presumed to be attributable to some disturbance of nutrition.

dystrophia
[Gr.] dystrophy.

dystrophia adiposogenitalis
dystrophia epithelialis corneae
dystrophy of the corneal epithelium, with erosions.
dystrophia ungulae

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Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by an expansion of a CTG trinucleotide repeat in a gene for an enzyme (the DMPK gene that encodes the enzyme dystrophia myotonica protein kinase, a serine/threonine kinase).
Myotonic muscular dystrophy (also known as myotonic dystrophy, dystrophia myotonica or Steinert's disease, and abbreviated MMD, MyD, or DM) is the most common type of adult muscular dystrophy, which affects 1 in 8000 individuals (approximately 40,000 people in the United States).
 
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