Medical Definition of Clonicity
1. The state of being clonic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clonicity
Literary usage of Clonicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cerebellar Functions by J. André-Thomas (1912)
"contractile force augmenting with the excitation, but without clonicity when the
excitation ceases. The application of the excitation unilaterally is ..."
2. A Treatise on nervous and mental diseases by Landon Carter Gray (1895)
"... the undilated pupils, the lack of the long sleep afterward, and the tendency
to overdo the clonicity or the tonicity of the convulsions or the bleeding ..."
3. The Practice and applied therapeutics of osteopathy by Charles Hazzard (1901)
"... and blood-vessels are stimulated in their action, (b) It sets up clonicity of
its muscular fibers; this leads to fatigue and relaxation of its fibers, ..."
4. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1890)
"... long sleep afterwards, together with the tendency to overdo the clonicity or
the tonicity of the convulsions, will usually lead to detection. Prognosis. ..."
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