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MYOTONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("myotonia" is a kind of...):
tone; tonicity; tonus (the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "myotonia"):
acromyotonia (myotonia of the extremities only; causes spastic deformity of the hand or foot)
myotonia congenita; Thomsen's disease (a mild, rare, congenital form of myotonia characterized by muscle stiffness)
Derivation:
myotonic (of or relating to or caused by myotonia)
