Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Tonusserhöhung
English translation:
Hypertonia
German term
Australia
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Tonunserhöhung
From an Austrian medical report on a patient with injuries sustained in a road accident.
I should point out that there are many spelling errors in the text and it is making life difficult for me.
| 4 | Hypertonia |
Günther Toussaint
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| 4 +3 | increased (spastic) muscle tone |
David Tracey, PhD
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| 4 | spasticity |
Christiane Frasca
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Mechanical Engineer (spec.: Plastics)
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Hypertonia
Hypertonia is a condition marked by an abnormal increase in muscle tension and a reduced ability of a muscle to stretch (wikipedia)
No idea about the meaning of "PZ"
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or: "Spastic hypertonia"
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Spastic hypertonia involves uncontrollable muscle spasms, stiffening or straightening out of muscles, shock-like contractions of all or part of a group of muscles, and abnormal muscle tone. It is seen in disorders such as cerebral palsy, stroke, and spinal cord injury. A form of hypertonia unrelated to spasticity is known as Paratonia which is associated with dementia. (wikipedia)
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2644919
| I see the HEXAL online dictionary gives 'hypertonia' for "Tonuserhöhung' but my Stedmans Medical Dictionary describes 'hypertonia' as 'extreme tension of the muscles or arteries' |
increased (spastic) muscle tone
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thanks, Peter.
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thanks, lirka.
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spasticity
Spasticity is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance in muscle tone involving hypertonia, which is also referred to as an unusual "tightness" of muscles. Clinically spasticity is defined as velocity dependent resistance to stretch, where a lack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasticity
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/spasticity/spasticity.htm
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