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- New Latin · borrowed frommyotonia
- English todaymyotonia
From New Latin myotonia, from myo- + -tonia. By surface analysis, myo- + -tonia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A symptom of several muscular disorders characterized by the slow relaxation of the muscles after voluntary contraction or electrical stimulation. Full definition →