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stiff-person syndrome

noun

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  1. Alternative form of stiff person syndrome.

    • The 39-year-old single mother of three was recently diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a painful and incurable progressive neurological disorder that causes stiffness and spasms of voluntary muscles.
    • When the disorder, stiff-person syndrome, eventually left her using a wheelchair, [Jacqui] Kapinowski began doing wheelchair competitions.

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