MYOTONIA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)