(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:47:29

Thom"sen's dis*ease" (?). [From Thomsen, a physician of Sleswick.] Med.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

 

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