myotonia
/ˌmʌɪə(ʊ)ˈtəʊnɪə
/noun [mass noun] Medicine
Inability to relax voluntary muscle after vigorous effort.Myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, affects the eyes, heart, hormonal systems, and blood, in addition to causing muscular dystrophy and involuntary muscle stiffness (myotonia)....
- Hereditary defects in the channels are known to cause many diseases, including dominant and recessive myotonia, Bartter's syndrome, and Dent's disease.
- In several small studies, selenium supplementation seemed to have an effect on myotonia.
Derivatives
myotonic
- In addition, diseases resulting in impaired contraction of striated muscle, such as myasthenia gravis or myotonic dystrophies, may demonstrate similar abnormalities.
- The researchers will focus on myotonic and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophies.
- And I went to the clinic to see if I had a thing called myotonic muscular dystrophy, which is also known as Steinert's disease.
Origin
Late 19th century: from myo- 'muscle' + Greek tonos 'tone'.
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