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myotonia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun myotonia has 1 sense
- myotonia(n = noun.state) - abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction; is a kind of tone, tonicity, tonus
has particulars: acromyotonia, myotonia congenita, thomsen's disease
Derived form adjective myotonic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
myotonia, n. the inability to relax voluntary muscle after vigorous effort.
Derivative
myotonic adj.
Etymology
MYO- + Gk tonos tone
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