tonus
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tonus
1875–80; < New Latin, special use of Latin tonus < Greek tónos tone
Example Sentences
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In the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica, Bodegård described the typical patient as “totally passive, immobile, lacks tonus, withdrawn, mute, unable to eat and drink, incontinent and not reacting to physical stimuli or pain.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
It is not, however, sufficiently emphasized, or even generally realized, that when a patient is too weak to stand or even to hold up his head, his condition is generally one of extremely low tonus.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The full practical significance of tonus has not yet, I believe, been realized either by physiologists or clinicians."
From Time Magazine Archive
Physiologists, especially those interested in the nervous system," read Dr. Henderson's proxy, "understand fully that posture, particularly the ability to stand erect, or to hold up one's head, is dependent upon tonus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abdominal respiration ceases; gradually then, as may be recognized by the limits of percussion, increasing loss of muscle tonus is added.
From Appendicitis by Tilden, John Henry
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