myoclonus

[ mahy-ok-luh-nuhs ]

nounPathology.
  1. an abrupt spasm or twitch of a muscle or group of muscles, occurring in some neurological diseases.

Origin of myoclonus

1
First recorded in 1880–85; myo- + clonus

Words Nearby myoclonus

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How to use myoclonus in a sentence

  • According to Maurice Dide, myoclonus, which he calls motor petit mal, occurs in five per cent.

  • It is more especially the association of epilepsy with the ill-defined group of myoclonus that we propose to discuss.

  • If several muscles are implicated, the condition is one of multiple myospasm or myoclonus.

  • Schupfer has recorded cases of family myoclonus with epileptiform attacks.

  • The denominations "myoclonus," "muscular dystrophy," "degenerate," are alike inconvenient.