Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: autosomal recessive disease: a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome → 1
Candidate hypernym: western pasqueflower: of western North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: possible: an applicant who might be suitable → 0
Candidate hypernym: hellfire: a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned → 0
Candidate hypernym: elution: the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions → 0
Candidate hypernym: platymiscium: genus of tropical American trees: quira → 0
Candidate hypernym: new deal: the economic policy of F. D. Roosevelt → 0
Candidate hypernym: translocation: (genetics) an exchange of chromosome parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: sialis: type genus of the Sialidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: false vocal cord: either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization → 0
Candidate hypernym: asthenic type: slender, weak, and lightweight → 0