MYOTONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myotonic mean? 

• MYOTONIC (adjective)
  The adjective MYOTONIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or caused by myotonia

  Familiarity information: MYOTONIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYOTONIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or caused by myotonia

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

myotonia (abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction)

Derivation:

myotonia (abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction)

 Context examples 

A four nucleotide repeat expansion in intron 1 resulting in 75 to 11000 CCTG repeats is associated with myotonic dystrophy type 2.

(CNBP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic benzodiazepine derivative used for myotonic or atonic seizures, absence seizures, and photosensitive epilepsy, anticonvulsant Clonazepam appears to enhance gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor responses, although its mechanism of action is not clearly understood.

(Clonazepam, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include myotonia congenita and myotonic dystrophy.

(Myotonic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)