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hypertonia Audio
[ hahy-per-toh-nee-uh ]
Subclass of:
Neuromuscular Manifestations
Definitions related to muscle hypertonia:
  • (hypertonia) A condition in which there is increased muscle tone so that arms or legs, for example, are stiff and difficult to move.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • (hypertonia) A condition of increased muscle tone manifested by increased resistance of the muscle to passive stretching.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (hypertonia) Abnormal increase in skeletal or smooth muscle tone; skeletal muscle hypertonicity may be associated with pyramidal tract lesions or basal ganglia diseases.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (hypertonia) Abnormally high muscle tone.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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