Word.ws English Dictionary

pleurosthotonus

pleurosthotonus is the alternative form of pleurothotonus.

Meaning of pleurothotonus

Noun

pleurothotonus (uncountable)

  1. A rare neurological disorder characterized by dystonia and abnormal and sustained involuntary muscle contraction.
    Synonyms:
    Pisa syndrome

Origin of pleurosthotonus

The -s- in pleurostho- is in analogy to opistho-

Questions about pleurosthotonus

What is pleurosthotonus the alternative form of?
Pleurosthotonus is the alternative form of pleurothotonus.

Words near pleurosthotonus in the dictionary

  1. pleurostea
  2. pleurosteal
  3. pleurosteon
  4. pleurosternid
  5. pleurosternids
  6. pleurosthotonus
  7. pleurostict
  8. pleurosticts
  9. pleurostoma
  10. pleurostomal
  11. pleurostomata

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pleurosthotonus (page history and authors); pleurothotonus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pleurosthotonus.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pleurosthotonus. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.