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 several muscular disorders characterized by the slow relaxation of the muscles after voluntary contraction or electrical stimulation

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

  • In short, these goats seize up when they get excited due to a quirk in their genetics, called myotonia congenita .

    Militant Libertarian Gadget42 2010

  • 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

  • The reason that fainting goats faint is that they have a hereditary genetic disorder called myotonia congenita.

    Merced Sun-Star: front 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He had been labeled with a number of interesting diagnoses, such as chorea, epilepsy, myotonia, hysteria, and neurasthenia.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • He had been labeled with a number of interesting diagnoses, such as chorea, epilepsy, myotonia, hysteria, and neurasthenia.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 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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