Muscle Disease Processes
Terms
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- atony
- lack of normal tone or strength-muscle is deprived of innervation
- atrophy
- wasting away or weakening of muscle fibers due to lack of usuage
- bursitis
- inflammation of a bursa
- bursa
- a sac-like cavity filled with synovial fluid and located in places where tendons or muscles pass over bony prominences
- charley horse
- a bruised or torn muscle accompanied by cramps and severe pain
- cramp
- a sustained spasm or contraction of a muscle accompanied by severe localized pain
- dystonia
- sustained abnormal postures or disruptions of normal movement resulting from alterations of muscle tone
- Dupuytren's contracture
- painless thickening and contracture of the palmer fascia due to fibrous proliferation resulting in loss of function of the fingers
- fasciculations
- similar to fibrillations or tremors. a repetitive, involuntary contraction of muscle. the main cause is nerve damage
- fibromyalgia, myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyositis
- a group of rhumatic disorders characterized by achy pain, tenderness, and stiffness of muscles and tendon insertions
- ganglion
- a thin-walled bandy cyst formed on a joint capsule or tendon sheath
- leiomyoma
- a benign tumor of smooth muscle tissue
- muscular dystrophy
- a genetic abnormality of muscle tissue characterized by dysfunction and ultimately deterioration
- myalgia
- muscle pain
- myasthenia gravis
- a progrssive neuromuscular weakness, usually starting with the muscles of the face and throat
- myopathy
- any disease of the muscles
- myostis ossificans
- severe contusion or tearing of a muscle
- paralysis
- the loss of nervous control of a muscle
- paraplegia
- paralysis of the legs
- quardriplegia
- paralysis of all four limbs
- plantar fasciitis
- excessive pulling or stretching of the calcaneal periosteum by the planter fascia resulting in pain along the inner border of the plantar fascia
- polymyositis
- an auto-immune disorder which causes atrophy and weakness of the muscles
- rigor mortis
- the muscular hardness occuring four to seven hours after death
- tendinitis, tenosynovitis
- inflammation of a tendon or the synovial lining of a tendon sheath
- tennis elbow, lateral and medial epicondylitis
- a strain of the lateral forearm muscles or the tendnous attachments near their origin on the epicondyle of the humerus
- tetanus
- a disease caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani which produces a toxin that causes muscles to go into tetany.
- torticollis
- persistant contraction of a sternocleidomastoid muscle drawing the head to one side and distorting the face