hyperlaxity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hyper- +‎ laxity

Noun[edit]

hyperlaxity (uncountable)

  1. Extreme laxity.
    • 2015 July 21, Katrien Smets et al., “First de novo KCND3 mutation causes severe Kv4.3 channel dysfunction leading to early onset cerebellar ataxia, intellectual disability, oral apraxia and epilepsy”, in BMC Medical Genetics[1], volume 16, →DOI:
      Other unique phenotypic features in our case were strabismus, severe oral apraxia, and joint hyperlaxity, which are all supposedly part of the phenotype of this de novo KCND3 mutation.