malignant hyperthermia

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   hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity

   Broaderautosomal dominant disease

Questions about malignant hyperthermia

What does malignant hyperthermia mean?

malignant hyperthermia means "hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity".

Is malignant hyperthermia a common word?

malignant hyperthermia 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.