MYOTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myotonia mean? 

• MYOTONIA (noun)
  The noun MYOTONIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction

  Familiarity information: MYOTONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOTONIA (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)

 Context examples 

Azacosterol has the unintended side effect of causing myotonia.

(Azacosterol, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include myotonia, dysfunction of the heart, kidney, and brain, and lactic acidosis.

(Cytochrome-C Oxidase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include myotonia congenita and myotonic dystrophy.

(Myotonic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by myotonia, muscular dystrophy, hypogonadism, heart conduction defects and cataracts.

(Dystrophia Myotonica 1, NCI Thesaurus)