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Muscle Weakness (Hypotonia) | Boston Children's Hospital
Hypotonia means decreased muscle tone . It can be a condition on its own, called benign congenital hypotonia, or it can be indicative of another problem where there is progressive loss of muscle tone, such as muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy. It is usually detected during infancy.
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Hypotonia in Babies: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
Hypotonia is poor muscle tone. People diagnosed with hypotonia don't show resistance when joints in their body move. Another term for hypotonia is “floppy ...
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Hypotonia - Wikipedia
Hypotonia is a state of low muscle tone [1] (the amount of tension or resistance to stretch in a muscle), often involving reduced muscle strength.
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hypotonia
hypotonia (haɪpəʊˈtəʊnɪə) Freq. in anglicized form hypotony (haɪˈpɒtənɪ). [mod.L., f. hypo- 4 + Gr. τόν-ος tone n. + -ia1.] 1. Ophthalm. A state of reduced pressure of the intra-ocular fluid.1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Hypotony... Applied by Nagel to the globe of the eye when less resistant than normal. 18...
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Hypotonia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Hypotonia is a poor muscle tone resulting in floppiness. It is abnormally decreased resistance encountered with passive movement of the joint.
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Hypotonia - Medical Encyclopedia - MedlinePlus
Hypotonia is often a sign of a worrisome problem. The condition can affect children or adults. Infants with this problem seem floppy and feel like a rag doll ...
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Hypotonia - Child Neurology Foundation
Hypotonia is defined as decreased muscle tone. Muscle tone refers to the way muscles resist when another person (or force) stretches or pushes on them.
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Hypotonia (Poor Muscle Tone): Signs, Causes, and Treatments
Hypotonia, or poor muscle tone, is usually detected at birth or during infancy. It's sometimes called floppy muscle syndrome.
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Hypotonia - BrainFacts
Hypotonia is a medical term used to describe decreased muscle tone. Normally, even when relaxed, muscles have a very small amount of contraction that gives ...
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What is Pediatric Hypotonia? - Milestone Therapy
Hypotonia is the term to describe muscles that are floppy. Children and babies with hypotonia often need to put in more effort to move properly, have a hard ...
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hypotonus
hypotonus (haɪpəˈtəʊnəs) [f. hypo- 4 + tonus.] 1. Ophthalm. = hypotonia 1. Now rare.1891 F. P. Foster Med. Dict. III. 1955/2 Hypotonus, that condition of the eye in which the intra-ocular tension is below normal, without being of necessity accompanied by any organic disease of the eyeball. 1918 R. H...
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Multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome
Multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome is a rare multi-systemic genetic disorder which is characterized by developmental delay, seizures , hypotonia and heart, urinary, and gastrointestinal abnormalities.
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hypotonicity
hypotonicity (ˌhaɪpəʊtəˈnɪsɪtɪ) [f. prec. + -ity.] The condition of being hypotonic. a. Physiol. Of a solution (see hypotonic a. 1 a): the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other.1906 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. XV. 367 Osmotic changes in the direction of hypotonicity. 1939 ...
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2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria
Presentation
The signs/symptoms of this condition are consistent with the following:
Intellectual disability,
Muscular hypotonia
Encephalitis
Seizures This form is chronic, with early symptoms such as hypotonia, tremors, and epilepsy declining into spongiform leukoencephalopathy, muscular choreodystonia
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-tonia
-tonia (ˈtəʊnɪə) also anglicized as -tony, terminal element [f. Gr. τόν-ος tone n. + -ia1] with the sense ‘tone, condition’ in terms in Med., as hypotonia, sympathicotonia.
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