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Definition of Tonuses
1. tonus [n] - See also: tonus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonuses
Literary usage of Tonuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"All emotions are not the perception of the postural tonus and all postural tonuses
do not, when perceived, constitute emotions. An emotion is the perception ..."
2. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"A.11 emotions are not the perception of the postural tonus and all postural
tonuses do not, when perceived, constitute emotions. ..."
3. Diseases of the Ear by Philip D. Kerrison (1921)
"For each joint there exists separate centres which maintain tonuses in different
... The operation of these two tonuses, acting in normal balance or ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"Certainly points, currents, gravity, light, heat and all the great cosmic forces
to which living forms respond by the many tropisms, tonuses, taxies, ..."
5. The American Citizen by Charles Fletcher Dole (1891)
"The bills were used as money to pay for supplies and the wages of soldiers.
The government, however, was not able to two \t& ^tonuses ..."
6. Man's unconscious passion by Wilfrid Lay (1920)
"The sum total of all these organic reactions, movements or tonuses in the muscles
of the arms, legs, trunk, etc., and in the involuntary muscles of heart, ..."
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