Meanings
plural zaspopathies
- countableuncountablemedicineAn autosomal-dominant form of muscular dystrophy.
Origin
ZASP, the gene which mutates to cause the condition (short for Z-band alternatively spliced PDZ-motif, the name of the protein encoded by the gene) + -o- + -pathy.
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