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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males); 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Becker muscular dystrophy
    n 1: a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or
         adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all
         voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness
         and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles
         first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less
         severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by
         females but affecting only males)