myotonicadj.
/mʌɪə(ʊ)ˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /ˌmaɪoʊˈtɑnɪk/ Medicine.
Of the nature of, characteristic of, or relating to myotonia; suffering from, affected by, or exhibiting myotonia.
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myotonic1887
1887 A. de Watteville tr. W. Erb in H. von Ziemssen Handbk. Gen. Therapeutics VI. 213 The Myotonic Electrical Reaction [not in Ger. original].
1887 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 14 129 Those [cases] which, although showing the principal symptoms, the ‘myotonic disorder of the muscles’, still..cannot be considered as true cases of Thomsen's disease.
1887 Lancet 14 May 973/2 ‘Myotonic contractions’, which has also been suggested, has the advantage of avoiding prejudice of the question whether the condition is always congenital.
1909 Brain 32 190 The muscles did not give the myotonic reaction as described by Erb in Thomsen's disease.
1948 F. B. Carlsen tr. E. Thomasen Myotonia ii. 18 Myotonic patients may often play the piano without difficulty.
1963 J. E. Caughey & N. C. Myrianthopoulos Dystrophia Myotonica ii. 20 Brown and Harvey (1939) examined myotonic goats electromyographically.
1999 Amer. Jrnl. Sports Med. 27 529 The stereotypic generalized myotonic signs and symptoms were provoked after the patient was asked to play 20 minutes of basketball during one of his office evaluations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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