{"term":{"id":"11772","title":"flaccid","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - flaccid","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11772","code":"11772","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Relaxed, flabby, or without tone.","notes":{"1":"Flaccid paralysis is a condition where one or more muscles are without tone. It is often caused by the lack of motor nerve impulses due to nerve trauma, disease or specific pharmaceuticals.","2":"Curare causes flaccid paralysis by binding to acetylcholine receptors and inhibiting their action."},"links":[{"term":"acetylcholine receptors","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/11559"},{"term":"nerve","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/11909"},{"term":"paralysis","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/11989"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 868 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11772\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11772\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11772\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'flaccid' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11772","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-04-17T23:57:43+00:00"}}