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Definition of Muscular tonus
1. Noun. Normal tonicity of the muscles. "Exercise improves muscle tone"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscular Tonus
Literary usage of Muscular tonus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 (1898)
"In the spastic there is exaggeration of the muscular tonus and exaggeration of
the reflexes. 3. In the cerebellar lesions there is exaggeration of the ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"In the spastic there is exaggeration of the muscular tonus and exaggeration of
the reflexes. 3. In the cerebellar lesions there is exaggeration of the ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"V. muscular tonus. In the first section of this paper it was pointed out that
the early physiologists represented by Müller and Henle had, ..."
4. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"There is evidently a diminution of muscular tonus, a so-called hypotonia of the
muscles. Since there are many reasons for believing that ..."
5. Lectures on the Diseases of the Spinal Cord by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"... views of the influence of Spinal Centres on muscular tonus.—Permanent Contracture
amends during Sleep and Horizontal Repose.—Postures of the Limbs in ..."
6. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"Increase of muscular tonus, according to its degree, is designated as muscular
spasm, hypertonia, ... Decrease of muscular tonus is called hypotonia. ..."
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