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tonus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tonus has 1 sense
- tonus(n = noun.state) tone, tonicity - the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" is a kind of tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity
has particulars: catatonia, muscle tone, muscular tonus, myotonia, hypertonia, hypertonicity, hypertonus, hypotonia, hypotonicity, hypotonus
CIDE DICTIONARY
tonus, n. [L. a sound, tone. See Tone.].
Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
tonus
adaptability, bounce, bounciness, buoyance, buoyancy, elasticity, extensibility, flexibility, give, liveliness, rebound, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, snap, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, tone, tonicity
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