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Definition of Hypotonicity
1. Noun. (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other.
2. Noun. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic.
Generic synonyms: Tone, Tonicity, Tonus
Antonyms: Hypertonia, Hypertonicity, Hypertonus
Derivative terms: Hypotonic, Hypotonic
Definition of Hypotonicity
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Hypotonicity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotonicity
Literary usage of Hypotonicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"These are also the effects of hypertonicity and hypotonicity of the medium in
the case of the tortoise auricles. In Limulus these effects of hypertonicity ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"There was hypotonicity and decreased muscular power. The patellar and Achilles
reflexes were present, but not exaggerated: no Babinski nor other extensor ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"Therefore, one must consider hypotonicity as of great importance in the causation
of the ataxia in tabes. An equally important factor is the loss of ..."
4. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra (1908)
"This muscular hypotonicity is greatly misinterpreted, and rachitic children are
... Hagenbach-Burkhardt refer to this abnormal hypotonicity as a specific ..."
5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1900)
"A few years ago Charles W. Burr showed me one of his patients who presented a
high degree of hypotonicity of the muscles of the lower limbs with exaggerated ..."
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