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Definition of Atonicity
1. Noun. Lack of normal muscular tension or tonus.
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Derivative terms: Atonic, Atonic, Atonic
Antonyms: Tonicity
Definition of Atonicity
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Atonicity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Atonicity
Literary usage of Atonicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1863)
"In such a state of atonicity of system, when tobacco produces the effect upon
the heart ... But if there be not a state of atonicity, but on the otherhand a ..."
2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"atonicity, Ellingwood states, is the keynote in its administration, and for this
reason renders it particularly serviceable in the cardiac weakness ..."
3. Studies in cardiac pathology by George William Norris (1911)
"The mitral valves may fail to prevent backward leakage owing to organic disease
or to atonicity of the muscular .sphincter, upon the integrity of which the ..."
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