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Abstract
A diminution of the skeletal muscle tone marked by a diminished resistance to passive stretching.
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- Decreased Muscle Tone
- Hypomyotonia
- Hypotonia
- Hypotony, Muscle
- Muscle Tone Poor
- Muscular Hypotonia
- Hypotonia, Muscle
- Hypotonia, Muscular
- Muscle Hypotony
- Muscle Tone, Decreased
- Tone Poor, Muscle
- Flaccid Muscle Tone
- Floppy Muscles
- Muscle Flaccidity
- Muscle Tone Atonic
- Muscular Flaccidity
- Neonatal Hypotonia
- Unilateral Hypotonia
- Flaccidity, Muscle
- Flaccidity, Muscular
- Floppy Muscle
- Hypotonia, Neonatal
- Hypotonia, Unilateral
- Hypotonias, Neonatal
- Hypotonias, Unilateral
- Muscle Tone Atonics
- Muscle Tone, Flaccid
- Muscle, Floppy
- Muscles, Floppy
- Muscular Flaccidities
- Neonatal Hypotonias
- Tone Atonic, Muscle
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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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1977
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- Muscular Diseases (1966-1976)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Muscle Hypotonia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009123. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009123
- Muscle Hypotonia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotonia
- Muscle Hypotonia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1753547