hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy

hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
(HMSN) any of a group of hereditary polyneuropathies involving muscle weakness, atrophy, sensory deficits, and vasomotor changes in the lower limbs. Some diseases in this group have been numbered: types I and II are varieties of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and type III is progressive hypertrophic neuropathy. Called also hereditary sensory and motor n.

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