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- German · borrowed fromMyogelose
- English todaymyogelosis
Borrowed from German Myogelose, coined by German physician Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Schade in 1921. By surface analysis, myo- + gelosis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
myogelosis
Today it means: A palpable area of hardening, stiffness or swelling in a muscle, usually painful on pressure, now considered to be correlated with a myofascial trigger point. Full definition →
German Myogelose