: a muscular disorder that is characterized by dystrophic muscle weakness and myotonia affecting multiple bodily systems and that is caused by an abnormally high number of repeats of a codon in the genetic material.
The Arizona Senate is part of the Arizona Legislature, the state legislature of the US state of Arizona. The Senate consists of 30 members each representing an average of 219,859 constituents. Members serve two-year terms with term limits that limit Senators to four terms for a total of eight years. Members of the Republican Party are currently the majority in the Senate. As with the Arizona House of Representatives, members to the Senate are elected from the same legislative districts as House members, however one Senator represents the constituency, while for the House there are two Representatives per district.
Much of that growth has come in the past 40 years -- in 1970 there were less than two million people in Arizona. The population of Arizona is concentrated around Phoenix, the state capital, and Tucson, its second largest city. The largest county in Arizona by population is Maricopa County, which is home to 4.1 million of the state's 6.9 million people.