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Definition of Hypertonus
1. Noun. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic.
Generic synonyms: Tone, Tonicity, Tonus
Derivative terms: Hypertonic, Hypertonic
Antonyms: Hypotonia, Hypotonicity, Hypotonus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypertonus
Literary usage of Hypertonus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1906)
"CEREBRAL MANIFESTATIONS OF hypertonus IN SCLEROSED ARTERIES. BY WILLIAM RUSSELL, MD.
FRCP (En.). Assistant Physician to the Royal Infirmary, and Lecturer on ..."
2. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1921)
"oxygen consumption and in the minute volume of air. I have repeatedly taken
Benedict tracings on patients during periods of bronchiolar hypertonus, ..."
3. Clinical Cardiology by Selian Neuhof (1917)
"Another factor in the production of hypertension in some cases of arterial disease'
is that due to hypertonus; this possible cause for error, however, ..."
4. A System of Diet and Dietetics by George Alexander Sutherland (1908)
"This hypertonus involves the systemic arterioles chiefly, though it tends to
implicate the entire systemic arterial tree, and, if long continued, ..."
5. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1908)
""Sustained hypertonus indicates the continued presence of substances in the ...
For sustained hypertonus is hurtful; it raises peripheral resistance and ..."
6. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"The pallidal type of postural hypertonus is the characteristic postural rigidity
of paralysis agitans. Combinations of these types are frequent, ..."
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