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Myotonic

Definition: Myotonic

Myotonic

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or caused by myotonia.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Myotonic

Synonyms by domain: Erb myotonic reaction (medicine), myotonic cataract, myotonic dystrophia, myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease.

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Crosswords: Myotonic

Specialty definitions using "myotonic": ClonazepamTrinucleotide Repeat Expansion. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Myotonic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Myotonic Dystrophy: The Facts: A Book for Patients and Families (Oxford Medical Publications) (reference)

  • Myotonic Dystrophy (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Myotonic

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Griggs, R, Ptacek, L, and Johnson, K. Genetics and Physiology of the Myotonic Muscle Disorders. (references)

NIAMS is also supporting planning grants for clinical trials, including one on myotonic dystrophy. (references)

Scientists have found some clues, both for myotonic dystrophy and triplet repeat disorders in general, and research is continuing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Myotonic

"Myotonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Myotonic" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Myotonic

Expressions using "myotonic": Myotonic Disorders myotonic dystrophy myotonic muscular dystrophy. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Myotonic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

myotonic dystrophy

112

myotonic muscular dystrophy

19

goat myotonic

9

myotonic

6

dystrophy myotonic symptom

5

congenital dystrophy myotonic

5

distrophy myotonic

3

myopathy myotonic proximal

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Myotonic

Language Translations for "myotonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

myotonia atrophicans (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), Steinerts syndrom (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), Erb's myotoniske reaktion (Erb myotonic reaction), dystrophia myotonica (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), cataracta myotonica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

myotonische reactie (Erb myotonic reaction), ziekte van Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), reactie van Erb (Erb myotonic reaction), cataracta myotonica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

myotoninen dystrofia (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), dystrophia myotonica (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease). (various references)

   

French

  

maladie de Steinert (myotonic dystrophy), réaction d'Erb (Erb myotonic reaction), dystrophie myotonique (myotonic dystrophia), cataracte myotonique (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

German

  

Myotoniestar (myotonic cataract), Erb Reaktion (Erb myotonic reaction), Cataracta myotonica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νόσος Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), μυοτονικός καταρράκτης (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattia di Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), reazione di Erb (Erb myotonic reaction), distrofia miotonica (myotonic dystrophia), cataratta miotonica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yotonicmay

   

Portuguese

  

reacção miotónica de Erb (Erb myotonic reaction), catarata miotónica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

miotonía atrófica (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), síndrome de Steinert-Curschman-Batten (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), síndrome de Curschman-Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), enfermedad de Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), distrofia miotónica de Steinert (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), distrofia miotónica (myotonic dystrophy, Steinert's disease), catarata miotónica (myotonic cataract). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Myotonic

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dystrophia myotonica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Myotonic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-m-n-o-o-t-y"

-2 letters: comity, motion, myotic, tycoon.

-3 letters: conto, cyton, mincy, minty, moony, nomoi, ontic, tonic, toyon, yonic.

-4 letters: cion, city, coin, coni, cony, coon, coot, icon, into, mint, mity, mono, mony, moon, moot, omit, onto, otic, tiny, tony, toom, toon, toyo, tyin, yoni.

-5 letters: con, coo, cot, coy, icy, ion, moc, mon, moo, mot, nim, nit.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-m-n-o-o-t-y"
 

+1 letter: monocytic, monotypic, mycotoxin, toponymic.

 

+2 letters: actomyosin, conformity, craniotomy, mycotoxins.

 

+3 letters: actomyosins, combinatory, comminatory, commonality, incommodity, monozygotic, toponymical.

 

+4 letters: actinomorphy, comfortingly, confirmatory, inconformity, microanatomy, microtonally, monophyletic, monosynaptic, monotonicity, motorcycling, noncommunity, nonhemolytic, photodynamic, unconformity.

 

+5 letters: actinomycoses, actinomycosis, actinomycotic, autonomically, communicatory, concomitantly, coterminously, cytotaxonomic, disconformity, endosymbiotic, microtonality, monotonically, nonconformity, onomastically, postembryonic, taxonomically, tonsillectomy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Myotonic


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 79 6F 74 6F 6E 69 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    -.--.    ---    -    ---    -.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01111001 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#121 &#111 &#116 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 006F 0074 006F 006E 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4791818681807569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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