Kennedy's disease

noun

Ken·ne·dy's disease ˈken-əd-ēz-

variants also Kennedy disease

-əd-ē-

: a progressive muscular and neurological disorder that is characterized especially by muscular weakness and atrophy and by neural degeneration, that is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait, and that chiefly affects adult males

called also spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

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