amyotonia, n. Path.
(ˌeɪmaɪəˈtəʊnɪə)
[f. a- 14 + myotonia n.]
Lack of muscle tone; spec. (in full amyotonia congenita), any of several rare congenital diseases characterized by general hypotonia of the skeletal muscles.
| 1907 Brain XXX. 146 (heading) Dr. James S. Collier.—A case of amyotonia congenita. 1946 M. R. Everett Med. Biochem. (ed. 2) vi. 462 Pathological creatinuria occurs during the course of such muscle diseases as amyotonia congenita. 1969 Developmental Med. Child Neurol. XI. 381 The features..used to define the syndrome are: 1..emaciation..followed..by voracious appetite and gross obesity. 2. Amyotonia and weakness dating from birth. 1987 Jrnl. Med. XVIII. 94 These congenital myopathies have been taken from the ill-defined heterogeneous conglomeration known as amyotonia congenita or floppy infant syndrome. |
Hence amyoˈtonic a.
| 1961 Epilepsia II. 298 Epileptic seizures..variously called apoplectic,..amyotonic, paralytic, etc., have been subdivided into a great number of varieties. 1969 Developmental Med. Child Neurol. XI. 381 A syndrome of adiposity, slight growth, cryptorchidism and oligophrenia following an amyotonic onset in the newborn period. |