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manual muscle testing

noun

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A clinical assessment in which the strength of a muscle is graded by the resistance it can hold against the examiner's hand.

Manual muscle testing graded his ankle dorsiflexors at three out of five, meaning movement against gravity but not resistance.

Similar: MMT

Topic: Physiotherapy in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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