See Also: limb-girdle muscular dystrophy(medicine)
joints of superior limb girdle(medicine)
joints of inferior limb girdle(medicine)
anemometer(encyclopedia)
anemometer(medicine)
anemometer(dictionary)
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girdle(dictionary)
girdle(medicine)

limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (medicine) and anemometer (iou)


limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (medicine)


limb-girdle muscular dystrophy


One of the less well-defined types of muscular dystrophy, probably heterogenous in Nature. Onset usually in childhood or early adulthood and both sexes affected. Characterised by weakness and wasting, usually symmetrical, of the pelvic girdle muscles, the shoulder girdle muscles, or both, but not the facial muscles. Muscle pseudohypertrophy, heart involvement, and mental retardation are absent. Variable inheritance.

Synonym: Leyden-Mobius muscular dystrophy, pelvofemoral muscular dystrophy, scapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.


anemometer (iou)



anemometer noun. E18.
[from ANEMO- + -METER.]
An instrument for measuring the speed or force of the wind, or of any gas in motion. E18.
An apparatus for indicating wind-pressure in an organ. M19.
anemometry noun the measurement of wind speed; the use of anemometers: M19.