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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dystrophy /ˈdɪstrəfi/

▶noun Medicine a disorder in which an organ or tissue of the body wastes away. See also muscular dystrophy.

– origin C19: from mod. L. dystrophia, from Gk dus- ‘bad’ + -trophia ‘nourishment’.

'dystrophy' also found in these Oxford entries:

DMD - Duchenne muscular dystrophy - dystrophic - dystrophin - muscular dystrophy - myotonic dystrophy

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