Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tonic spasm or temporary rigidity of one or more muscles, often characteristic of various muscular disorders.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of continuous muscular contraction.
- noun Same as
myotony .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
symptom of severalmuscular disorders characterized by the slowrelaxation of the muscles aftervoluntary contraction or electricalstimulation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction
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Examples
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In short, these goats seize up when they get excited due to a quirk in their genetics, called myotonia congenita .
Militant Libertarian Gadget42 2010
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In short, these goats seize up when they get excited due to a quirk in their genetics, called myotonia congenita .
Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010
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The reason that fainting goats faint is that they have a hereditary genetic disorder called myotonia congenita.
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America Myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2 (DM1 and DM2) are forms of muscular dystrophy that share similar clinical and molecular manifestations, such as myotonia, muscle weakness, cardiac anomalies, cataracts, and the presence of defined RNA-containing foci in muscle nuclei.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010
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Myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2 (DM1 and DM2) are forms of muscular dystrophy that share similar clinical and molecular manifestations, such as myotonia, muscle weakness, cardiac anomalies, cataracts, and the presence of defined RNA-containing foci in muscle nuclei.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010
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The names refer specifically to myotonia congenita, a condition in which the muscle cells experience prolonged contraction when the goat is startled.
After killer sheep and ripped jeans... The Eternal Postdoc 2007
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The names refer specifically to myotonia congenita, a condition in which the muscle cells experience prolonged contraction when the goat is startled.
Archive 2007-03-01 The Eternal Postdoc 2007
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He had been labeled with a number of interesting diagnoses, such as chorea, epilepsy, myotonia, hysteria, and neurasthenia.
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He had been labeled with a number of interesting diagnoses, such as chorea, epilepsy, myotonia, hysteria, and neurasthenia.
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Koch MC, Lehmann-Horn F, Pongratz D, Otto M, et al. (1994) Proximal myotonic myopathy: a new dominant disorder with myotonia, muscle weakness, and cataracts.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan A. Sammons et al. 2010
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