thomsen's disease

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   a mild, rare, congenital form of myotonia characterized by muscle stiffness

   Synonymsmyotonia congenita

   Broadermyotonia

Questions about thomsen's disease

What does thomsen's disease mean?

thomsen's disease means "a mild, rare, congenital form of myotonia characterized by muscle stiffness".

What is another word for thomsen's disease?

Close synonyms include myotonia congenita. 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.

Is thomsen's disease a common word?

thomsen's disease 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.