- Thomsen's disease
- nouna mild, rare, congenital form of myotonia characterized by muscle stiffness• Syn: ↑myotonia congenita• Hypernyms: ↑myotonia
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Thomsen's disease
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Thomsen's disease — Thom sen s dis*ease [From Thomsen, a physician of Sleswick.] (Med.) An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Thomsen disease — Thomsen disease. См. болезнь Томсена. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
Thomsen disease — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 8736 ICD10 = ICD10|G|71|1|g|70 ICD9 = ICD9|359.2 ICDO = OMIM = 160800 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D009224 Thomsen disease, a form of Myotonia congenita, is a… … Wikipedia
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Thomsen disease — the autosomal dominant form of myotonia congenita (q.v.) … Medical dictionary
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