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hypertonia
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hypertonia /hy·per·to·nia/ (-to´ne-ah) a condition of excessive tone of the skeletal muscles; increased resistance of muscle to passive stretching.
hy·per·to·ni·a (hpr-tn-)
n.
Extreme tension of the muscles or arteries.

Hypertonia
Having excessive muscular tone.
Mentioned in: Adrenoleukodystrophy

hypertonia
[-tō′nē·ə]
1 abnormally increased muscle tone or strength. The condition is sometimes associated with genetic disorders, such as trisomy 18, and may be expressed in arm or leg deformities.
2 a condition of excessive pressure, such as the intraocular pressure of glaucoma.

hypertonia [hi″per-to´ne-ah]
abnormally increased tonicity, as of skeletal muscles or the walls of arteries.

hypertonia
abnormally increased tonicity or strength.

hypertonia oculi
high intraocular pressure; glaucoma.


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