WordNet: Werdnig-Hoffman disease

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

• hypernym autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease

Werdnig-Hoffman disease

• (suomi) Werdnig-Hoffmanin tauti (synonyymi)