dystrophy vs Steinert's disease

dystrophy and Steinert's disease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dystrophy	Yes	No	No	No
Steinert's disease	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Steinert's disease is a hyponym of dystrophy; that is, Steinert's disease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dystrophy:

dystrophy: any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
Steinert's disease: a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant

Other hyponyms of dystrophy include Becker muscular dystrophy, distal muscular dystrophy, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, pseudohypertrophic dystrophy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, myotonia atrophica, myotonic dystrophy, myotonic muscular dystrophy, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.

dystrophy (noun)	Steinert's disease (noun)
any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition	a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant
any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles

dystrophy vs Steinert's disease

dystrophy and Steinert's disease both are nouns.

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