Synonyms & related words for hypertonia

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Words related to hypertonia

Explore words related to hypertonia — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include hypertonicity, hypotonia, amyotonia, hypotonicity, myotonia, clonus, athetosic, tonicity. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does hypertonia come from?

The word hypertonia breaks down into 3 roots of Greek origin: hyper-, from Greek hyper (“over, above, excessive”); ton, from Greek tonos (“tension, tone”); and -ia, from Greek -ia (“state, condition”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.