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Definition: Myotonic |
MyotonicAdjective1. Of or relating to or caused by myotonia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Myotonic |
| Specialty definitions using "myotonic": Clonazepam ♦ Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "myotonic": Myotonic Disorders ♦ myotonic dystrophy ♦ myotonic muscular dystrophy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 reacção miotónica de Erb (Erb myotonic reaction), catarata miotónica (myotonic cataract). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dystrophia myotonica. (various references) |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 79 6F 74 6F 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -.--. --- - --- -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01101111 01110100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y o t o n i c |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4791818681807569 |
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