This is a disease causing progressive muscular weakness and deterioration

A) Duchenne muscular dystrophy
B) osteogenesis imperfecta
C) fibromyalgia
D) achondroplasia


A
Explanation: Dys/trophy means "bad, difficult, or abnormal development." Breaking down the other terms can identify their meaning and exclude them as oste/o/genesis imperfecta means "imperfect bone development," fibr/o/my/algia is "condition of pain of the fibers and muscles," and a/chondr/o/plasia is "without cartilage formation."

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