English Explanatory Dictionary

myogelosis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A palpable area of hardening, stiffness or swelling in a muscle, usually painful on pressure, now considered to be correlated with a myofascial trigger point.

Word forms

myogelosis myogeloses

Etymology

Borrowed from German Myogelose, coined by German physician Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Schade in 1921. By surface analysis, myo- + gelosis.

Derived words

myogelotic
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