myotonia

What does myotonia mean?

myotonia means "abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction".

How many syllables are in myotonia?

myotonia has 4 syllables and divides as my-o-to-nia 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.

Is myotonia a common word?

myotonia 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for myotonia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.