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myoclonus
(redirected from Myoclonic jerk)

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my·oc·lo·nus  (m-kl-ns)
n.
A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.
myo·clonic (m-klnk) adj.
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Noun1.myoclonus - a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group
cramp, muscle spasm, spasm - a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
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He experienced normal development until the age of 3 months, at which time-delayed motor skills, followed by episodes of myoclonic jerks, were observed.
Infantile sandhoff's disease by Sass, Kimberly; Lemire, E. / South African Journal of Radiology
A sufficiently high dose of PTZ can produce a continuum of seizure activity that progress from mild myoclonic jerks to face and forelimbs clonus without loss of righting reflex (which is known as minimal clonic seizure, MCS), to clonic seizures of limbs with loss of righting reflex, to full tonic extension of both forelimbs and hindlimbs (generalized tonic-clonic seizures, GTCS) (Loscher et al.
Protective effect of safranal on pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures ... by Hosseinzadeh, H.; Sadeghnia, H.R. / Phytomedicine: International Journal of Phytotherapy & Phytopharmacology
Over the years Anna has suffered myoclonic jerks, which caused her right arm to jerk up on its own, and absent seizures, periods which were similar to day dreaming.
'Unless you're foaming at the mouth people don't realise it could be ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
 
 
 
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