Kennedy's disease
noun
Ken·ne·dy's disease
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also Kennedy disease \ -əd-ē-
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Medical Definition of Kennedy's disease
: a progressive muscular and neurological disorder that is characterized especially by muscular weakness and atrophy and by neural degeneration, that is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait, and that chiefly affects adult males
— called also spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy