Meanings
plural paramyotonias
- countableuncountablemedicineA form of myotonia that worsens with exercise.
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Recent work has, however, clearly shown that in paramyotonia the attacks of muscular weakness are very closely related to the episodes of paralysis which occur in patients with familial periodic paralysis, but in fact in most families with paramyotonia the attacks have been associated with a rise in serum potassium rather than with a fall, so that the condition is more closely related to the so-called adynamia episodica hereditaria of Gamstorp (1956).
1961 August, John N. Walton, “The Prognosis and Management of Some Muscular Diseases”, in A. C. Boyle, S. Mattingly, editors, Annals of Physical Medicine […], volume VI, number 3, London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121
Origin
- GermanParamyotonie
- Englishparamyotonia
From para- (“paradoxical”) + myo- + -tonia, after German Paramyotonie.
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