paratonia

[par-uh-toh nee-uh]

noun

1. Pathology.,  a type of hypertonia in which a person is unable to relax their muscles when part of their body is being moved by someone else.

Example Sentences

But he abhorred the thought; and, hiring a camel, went over the vast desert to Parætonia, a sea town of Libya. 

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