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myogelosis

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncommon, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from German Myogelose, coined by German physician Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Schade in 1921. By surface analysis, myo- + gelosis.