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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:opisthotonus
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Accession:MP:0002880 term browser browse the term
Definition:a form of tetanic spasm in which the head, neck and spine are bent backward and the body is bowed forward
Comment:Stedman's Medical Dictionary states that both the -us and the -os spellings are correct and synonymous.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: opisthotonos



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Symbol Object Name Evidence Notes Source PubMed Reference(s) RGD Reference(s) Position
G Myo5a myosin VA IAGP DNA:rearrangement:exon:a 141-bp exon skipped RGD PMID:17185506 RGD:1600835 NCBI chr 8:75,811,985...75,980,049
Ensembl chr 8:75,812,412...75,975,918
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  mammalian phenotype 5417
    behavior/neurological phenotype 609
      abnormal behavior 608
        abnormal motor capabilities/coordination/movement 239
          abnormal involuntary movement 75
            opisthotonus 2
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