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Prolonged shortening of the muscle or other soft tissue around a joint, preventing movement of the joint.
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- Contractures
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coordinate IM with specific muscle or other tissue or site (IM) but not with MUSCLES, skeletal; also available are DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE; HIP CONTRACTURE; VOLKMANN CONTRACTURE & EQUINUS CONTRACTURE
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- National Library of Medicine. Contracture. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003286. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003286
- Contracture. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contracture
- Contracture. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1480291