myogelosis
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A palpable area of hardening, stiffness or swelling in a muscle, usually painful on pressure, now considered to be correlated with a myofascial trigger point.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Myogelosis is a common diagnosis in the case of chronic pain conditions, especially in the region of the pectoral girdle musculature, the glutei muscles, and the erector spinae muscle. Although such indurative areas continue to be palpable even on the cadaver, few studies concerning the morphological substrate of these areas have been undertaken."