different between stiffness vs contracture

stiffness

English

Etymology

From Middle English stiffenes, styffenesse, styfnesse; equivalent to stiff +? -ness. Perhaps merging with Middle English stithnesse, stithnysse, from Old English st?þness (stiffness).

Noun

stiffness (countable and uncountable, plural stiffnesses)

  1. Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
  2. Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
  3. Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
    • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
      Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  4. Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.

Translations

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contracture

English

Etymology

From French contracture, from 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


Latin

Participle

contract?re

  1. vocative masculine singular of contract?rus

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