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Stiffness vs Contracture - What's the difference?

stiffness | contracture |

As nouns the difference between stiffness and contracture

is that stiffness is rigidity or a measure of rigidity while contracture is an abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused.

stiffness

English

Noun

  • Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
  • Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
  • Inelegance, lacking relaxedness.
  • * 1699 , , 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.

    contracture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused