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disease > symptom > muscle tonus alteration > muscular hypotonia > cataplexy

disease > striated muscle disease > muscle tonus alteration > muscular hypotonia > cataplexy

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Preferred term

cataplexy

Definition(s)

Cataplexy is a sudden and transient episode of muscle weakness accompanied by full conscious awareness, typically triggered by emotions such as laughing, crying, or terror. (Wikipedia)

Broader concept(s)

muscular hypotonia

Narrower concept(s)

Gelineau syndrome

In other languages

cataplexie

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/VH8-T701J3PW-S

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