Diseases

Myokymia

Successive and rapid contractions of motor units associated with chronic nerve injury. The discharges arise from the peripheral aspects of regenerating nerves, and clinically impart a nearly continuous undulation of the body surface overlying the muscle. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1491)

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Abstract

Successive and rapid contractions of motor units associated with chronic nerve injury. The discharges arise from the peripheral aspects of regenerating nerves, and clinically impart a nearly continuous undulation of the body surface overlying the muscle. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1491)

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Synonyms

25 entry terms
  • Fibrillary Chorea
  • Kymatism
  • Morvan Chorea
  • Morvan's Chorea
  • Morvan's Fibrillary Chorea
  • Chorea, Fibrillary
  • Chorea, Morvan
  • Chorea, Morvan's
  • Chorea, Morvan's Fibrillary
  • Choreas, Fibrillary
  • Choreas, Morvan
  • Choreas, Morvan's
  • Fibrillary Chorea, Morvan's
  • Fibrillary Choreas
  • Kymatisms
  • Morvan Choreas
  • Morvan Fibrillary Chorea
  • Morvan's Choreas
  • Morvans Chorea
  • Morvans Fibrillary Chorea
  • Myokymias
  • Myokymia, Generalized
  • Generalized Myokymia
  • Generalized Myokymias
  • Myokymias, Generalized

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Aspects Covered

35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

consider also FASCICULATION; for continuous myokymia use ISAACS SYNDROME

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History Note

2000; use FASCICULATION 1985-1999

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Previous Indexing

  • Fasciculation (1985-1999)

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Tree Numbers

  1. C10w.597.613.650w
  2. C23.888w.592.608.650w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Myokymia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020385. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020385
  2. Myokymia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myokymia
  3. Myokymia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6593390