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Muscle Hypertonia

"Muscle Hypertonia" 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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Abnormal increase in skeletal or smooth muscle tone. Skeletal muscle hypertonicity may be associated with PYRAMIDAL TRACT lesions or BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscle Hypertonia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscle Hypertonia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 8 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2005 and 2012
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