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hypotonia, central nervous system, floppy, decreased muscle tone, hypotonic infant, hypotonia involves decreased muscle tone, infants, hypotonia seem floppy, a "rag doll" does, hypotonia, a sign of a worrisome abnormality, suggest, central nervous system dysfunction, genetic disorders, muscle disorders, hypotonic infants rest, elbows, knees loosely extended, infants, normal tone tend to have flexed elbows, knees, head control poor, absent, in the floppy infant, the head falling, side, backward, forward, infants, normal tone, lifted, the parent's hands placed under the armpits, hypotonic infants tend to slip between the hands, the infant's arms rise unresistingly upward, down syndrome, myasthenia gravis, prader-willi syndrome, kernicterus, cerebellar ataxia, congenital, myotonic dystrophy, infant botulism, familial dysautonomia, riley-day syndrome, marfan's syndrome, muscular dystrophy, achondroplasia, trisomy 13, sepsis, aicardi syndrome, canavan disease, congenital hypothyroidism, hypervitaminosis d, krabbe disease, menkes syndrome, metachromatic leukodystrophy, methylmalonic acidemia, rickets, spinal muscular atrophy type 1, werdnig- hoffman, tay-sachs disease, vaccine reaction, klinefelter syndrome extra care must be taken, lifting, carrying a hypotonic infant to avoid causing an injury, child, child appears "floppy", previously seemed to have normal muscle control, family history, child's medical history, a physical examination, the disorders associated, hypotonia also cause other symptoms, taken together, suggest a particular disorder, medical history questions, did first notice that baby seemed floppy, was it apparent at birth, did it develop suddenly, have ever noticed a pattern, behavior, always the same, worse at certain times, how exactly does the child act, the child generally limp, floppy in certain areas, physical examination, detailed nervous system, muscle function examination, diagnostic tests, vary depending on the suspected cause, the hypotonia, chen h, klinefelter syndrome, emedicine, 2004, available online at http://www, emedicine, com/ped/topic1252.htm, yeh pc, kipp ma, a case of moebius syndrome in association, klinefelter syndrome, ophthalmic genet, 2002 sep, 23(3), 185-9.