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
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: cerebral palsy: a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: demythologization: the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: operation: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: crusher: a device that crushes something
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: asparagus: edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: neurinoma: tumor (usually benign) of the sheath surrounding a nerve
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: straitjacket: a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: edmontosaurus: duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: methodology: the system of methods followed in a particular discipline
Broader: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes | Unrelated: spoilage: the amount that has spoiled