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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.

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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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hypertonia (redirected from Muscle rigidity)

hypertonia
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