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Muscle flaccidity

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A type of paralysis in which a muscle becomes soft and yields to passive stretching, which results from loss of all or practically all peripheral motor nerves that innervated the muscle. Muscle tone is reduced and the affected muscles undergo extreme atrophy within months of the loss of innervation. [ HPO:curators ]

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  • MSH:D009123
  • UMLS:C0026825
  • SNOMEDCT_US:397488002
  • SNOMEDCT_US:186611004
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peter

creation date

2009-09-29T09:21:45Z

definition

A type of paralysis in which a muscle becomes soft and yields to passive stretching, which results from loss of all or practically all peripheral motor nerves that innervated the muscle. Muscle tone is reduced and the affected muscles undergo extreme atrophy within months of the loss of innervation.

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HP:0010547

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