Floppy baby syndrome

Floppy baby syndrome
A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifested by inadequate tone of the muscles. It can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. See also Hypotonia.

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  • floppy baby syndrome — noun hypotonia …   Wiktionary

  • floppy baby syndrome — see amyotonia congenita …   Medical dictionary

  • floppy baby syndrome — see amyotonia congenita …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • Амиотония Врожденная (Amyotonia Congenita), Синдром Оппенгейма (Floppy Baby Syndrome} — устаревшее название различных врожденных заболеваний, при которых мышцы ребенка являются слабыми и пассивными (гипотоничными). Данные термины практически вышли из употребления, так как в настоящее время более точная диагностика позволяет… …   Медицинские термины

  • Синдром Оппенгейма (Floppy Baby Syndrome) — см. Амиотония врожденная. Источник: Медицинский словарь …   Медицинские термины

  • Syndrome, floppy baby — A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifested by inadequate tone of the muscles. It can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. See also Hypotonia …   Medical dictionary

  • syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

  • amyotonia congenita — floppy baby syndrome a former diagnosis for various conditions, present at birth, in which the baby s muscles are weak and floppy (i.e. hypotonic). The term is becoming obsolete as more specific diagnoses are discovered to explain the cause of… …   The new mediacal dictionary

  • СИНДРОМ ОППЕНГЕЙМА — (floppy baby syndrome) см. Амиотония врожденная …   Толковый словарь по медицине

  • Hypotonia — Floppy Muscle Syndrome Classification and external resources ICD 10 P94.2 ICD 9 358 …   Wikipedia

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