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MeSH Heading: Muscle Hypotonia
Tree Number(s): C10.597.613.575; C23.888.592.608.575
Unique ID: D009123
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009123
Scope Note: A diminution of the skeletal muscle tone marked by a diminished resistance to passive stretching.
Entry Term(s): Decreased Muscle Tone; Flaccid Muscle Tone; Floppy Muscles; Hypomyotonia; Hypotonia; Hypotony, Muscle; Muscle Flaccidity; Muscle Tone Atonic; Muscle Tone Poor; Muscular Flaccidity; Muscular Hypotonia; Neonatal Hypotonia; Unilateral Hypotonia
Previous Indexing: Muscular Diseases (1966-1976)
Public MeSH Note: 1977
History Note: 1977
Date Established: 1977/01/01
Date of Entry: 1976/05/19
Revision Date: 2001/07/25

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0014238
Scope Note: A diminution of the skeletal muscle tone marked by a diminished resistance to passive stretching.
Terms: Muscle Hypotonia Preferred Term
Term UI T027282
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1977); Decreased Muscle Tone
Term UI T371094
Date11/08/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Muscle Tone Poor
Term UI T371097
Date11/08/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Hypotonia
Term UI T371093
Date11/08/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Hypotony, Muscle
Term UI T371096
Date11/08/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000); Muscular Hypotonia
Term UI T428811
Date11/14/2000
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2002); Hypomyotonia
Term UI T371095
Date11/08/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2000)

Muscle Hypotonia MeSH Descriptor Data 2023