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Definition of Myotonias
1. myotonia [n] - See also: myotonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myotonias
Literary usage of Myotonias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the Nervous System by John Eastman Wilson (1916)
"THE myotonias. Myotonia, or Tonic Spasm, is the designation of diseases which
present tonic spasms which are symptomatic of organic disease. Tetany. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The second part of the book is devoted to functional diseases, and included in
this are chorea, tics, myoclonus. myotonias, epilepsy, paralysis agitans, ..."
3. 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 (1920)
"Dr. Abrahamson called attention to the fact that the left sterno mastoid was
beginning to waste, and remarked that certain myotonias of Thomsen merge into ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"... case atrophy of the thenar eminences and continued muscular weakness, imply
a relationship to the progressive muscular atrophies and to the myotonias. ..."
5. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods by Shepherd Ivory Franz (1919)
"Limitations may be due to contrac- tures, to rigid joints, to myotonias, and
often to pain due to pressure upon nerve endings in or nerve trunks between the ..."
6. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1912)
"Limitations may be due to contrac- tures, to rigid joints, to myotonias, and
often to pain due to pressure upon nerve endings in or nerve trunks between the ..."
7. A Textbook of Nervous Diseases for Students and Practicing Physicians: In by Robert Bing, Charles Lewis Allen (1921)
"G. The myotonias A peculiar disease condition was made known by the Schleswig
physician Thomsen in 1876. His material was furnished by his own family, ..."
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