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Kennedy's disease

Kennedy's disease noun: spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.

Noun

Kennedy's disease (uncountable)

  1. Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Origin of Kennedy's disease

First described by William R. Kennedy in 1968.

Questions about Kennedy's disease

What does Kennedy's disease mean?
Kennedy's disease means spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.
What part of speech is Kennedy's disease?
Kennedy's disease is a noun.

Words near Kennedy's disease in the dictionary

  1. Kennedy Meadows
  2. Kennedy plea
  3. Kennedy pleas
  4. Kennedy syndrome
  5. Kennedy Town
  6. Kennedy's disease
  7. Kennedyesque
  8. Kennedyism
  9. Kennedyite
  10. Kennedyites
  11. Kennedynomics

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