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a combining form with the meaning “muscle tension, nerve tension,” as specified by the initial element (hypertonia); used also in the formation of words that denote more generally a personality type or personality disorder (catatonia; somatotonia).

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Origin of -tonia

See tone, -ia

Words nearby -tonia

tongue twister, tongue worm, tonguing, tonguing-and-grooving plane, Toni, -tonia, tonic, tonic accent, tonic-clonic, tonic contraction, tonic convulsion

How to use -tonia in a sentence

Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the jacal, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.
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Then outside Tonia swung in a grass hammock with her guitar and sang sad canciones de amor .
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Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon-tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.
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Tonia dropped the lariat, twisted herself around, and curved a lemon- tinted arm over the ranger's shoulder.
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Then outside Tonia swung in a grass hammock with her guitar and sang sad /canciones de amor/.
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Medical definitions for -tonia

-tonia

suff.

Degree or state of tonicity:myotonia.