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Myotonic dystrophy--the most common adult form of muscular dystrophy--is a chronic, progressive, and inherited neuromuscular condition presenting with multisystemic complications including distal muscle weakness, myotonia, hypersomnolence, early-onset cataracts, cardiac conduction abnormalities, and slurred speech and swallowing problems (Harper, 2001).
Medical Definition of hypotonic. 1  1: having deficient tone or tension hypotonic children. 2  2: having a lower osmotic pressure than a surrounding medium or a fluid under comparison a hypotonic solutionâcompare hypertonic 2, isotonic 1.