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Definition of Hypermobility
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Hypermobility
1. Increased range of movement of joints, joint laxity, occurring normally in young children or as a result of disease, e.g., Marfan's or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome; hypermobility may result in degenerative joint disease. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypermobility
Literary usage of Hypermobility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"It must be taken into consideration, that here, too, we are gradually becoming
convinced that hypermobility is one of the conditions often dependent ..."
2. Atlas and Epitome of Diseases Caused by Accidents by Eduard Golebiewski (1900)
"... instead of ankylosis we have hypermobility of the ... Hypermobility mnst be
treated by means of a suitable bandage. Subluxation. ..."
3. Management of Temporomandibular Disorders: Current Bibliographies in by Martha H. Glock, James A. Lipton (1996)
"Dijkstra PU, de Bont LG, de Leeuw R, Stegenga B, Boering G. Temporomandibular joint
osteoarthrosis and temporomandibular joint hypermobility. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1914)
"We find a similar state of affairs in the stomach, for here also spastic states
and hypermobility are referable to the same underlying cause. ..."
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