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SMAs

SMAs is the abbreviation of spinal muscular atrophies.

SMAs is the plural of SMA.

Meaning of spinal muscular atrophies

Noun

spinal muscular atrophies pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the degeneration of lower motor neurons and atrophy of muscle groups
    Synonyms:
    SMAs

Noun capitalized: SMAS

SMAS (plural SMASs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of superficial muscular aponeurotic system
    • By releasing and lifting tissue beneath the SMAS, it can provide more significant improvements to the mid-face and nasolabial folds in the right patients.2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, quoting Jonny Betteridge, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5

Forms of SMAs

pluralSMASs

Questions about SMAs

What is SMAs the abbreviation of?
SMAs is the abbreviation of spinal muscular atrophies.
What part of speech is SMAs?
SMAs is a noun.
What is the plural of SMAs?
The plural of SMAs is SMASs.

Words near SMAs in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: SMAs (page history and authors); SMAS (page history and authors); spinal muscular atrophies (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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