hypertonia

Questions about hypertonia

What does hypertonia mean?

hypertonia means "(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic".

How many syllables are in hypertonia?

hypertonia has 5 syllables and divides as hy-per-to-ni-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hypertonia?

Close synonyms include hypertonus, hypertonicity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of hypertonia?

The recorded antonyms are hypotonia.

Is hypertonia a common word?

hypertonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.