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Definition of Hypertonicity

1. Noun. (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other.

2. Noun. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic.

Definition of Hypertonicity

1. Noun. the condition of being hypertonic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hypertonicity

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Medical Definition of Hypertonicity

1. Synonym: hypertonia. 2. An increased effective osmotic pressure of body fluids. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypertonicity

hyperthyroid heart hyperthyroidism hyperthyroxinaemia hypertime hypertimes hypertolerance hypertolerances hypertonia hypertonia polycythemica hypertonias

hypertonic hypertonic bladder hypertonic solution hypertonic solutions hypertonicities hypertonicity (current term) hypertonus hypertoroid hypertoroids hypertrees

hypertrichiasis hypertrichophrydia hypertrichosis hypertrichosis lanuginosa hypertrichosis partialis hypertrichosis universalis hypertridimensional hypertriglyceridaemia hypertriglyceridaemias hypertriglyceridemia

Literary usage of Hypertonicity

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)
"The right hamstring muscles were in a state of hypertonicity; almost rigidity. ... This hypertrophy and hypertonicity is also observed in Thomsen's disease. ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"The outstanding clinical features were the marked hypertonicity of the somatic musculature ... Also that instead of the hypertonicity being associated with ..."

4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1909)
"More frequently we find hypertonicity of the laryngeal muscles, so that the flexibility of ... Cramps and hypertonicity of the muscles of pronunciation. ..."

5. Stuttering and Lisping by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1912)
"All the muscles involved in speech are brought into a condition of over-tension or " hypertonicity" whenever the stutterer begins to speak, although there ..."

6. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1915)
"symptom of hypertonicity ... The dysarthric and dysphagic disturbances were in part at least manifestations of hypertonicity. ..."

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