contracture

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French contracture, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin contractura.

Noun

contracture (countable and uncountable, plural contractures)

1. (medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused.
   • 2010, Scott W. Wolfe, ‎William C. Pederson, ‎Robert N. Hotchkiss, Green's Operative Hand Surgery, Sixth Edition (page 2099)

     Even if in the initial phase of acute hand burn injury all treatment measures have been executed properly, postburn deformities still occur and are the most common cause of skin contracture in the hand. Postburn scarring and contractures affect the function as well as the aesthetic appearance of the hand and remain the most frustrating late complication of a hand burn.

Translations

abnormal contraction of a muscle

• French: contracture (fr) f
• German: Kontraktur (de) f
• Italian: contrattura (it) f
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• Portuguese: contratura f
• Romanian: contracție (ro) f, cotractare
• Spanish: contractura (es) f

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) contractūre

1. vocative masculine singular of contractūrus