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Dystonia

"Dystonia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An attitude or posture due to the co-contraction of agonists and antagonist muscles in one region of the body. It most often affects the large axial muscles of the trunk and limb girdles. Conditions which feature persistent or recurrent episodes of dystonia as a primary manifestation of disease are referred to as DYSTONIC DISORDERS. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p77)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dystonia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dystonia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1999
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