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paratonia

American  
[par-uh-toh nee-uh] / ˌpær ə toʊ ˈni ə /

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.

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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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