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Definition of Hypotonus
1. Noun. (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic.
Generic synonyms: Tone, Tonicity, Tonus
Antonyms: Hypertonia, Hypertonicity, Hypertonus
Derivative terms: Hypotonic, Hypotonic
Medical Definition of Hypotonus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotonus
Literary usage of Hypotonus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1921)
"Gastric hypotonus 3. Alterations of peristalsis These signs either singly or in
combination have no diagnostic value since they are seen in other diseases ..."
2. The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal by Russell Daniel Carman (1920)
"However, if the hypotonus does not accord with the habitus of the patient ...
In conjunction with other secondary signs, hypotonus has a contributory value, ..."
3. Medical Review (1902)
"Muscular hypotonus, or loss of muscular tone, is sometimes of service in early
diagnosis. The patient frequently can move the joints to an abnormal extent. ..."
4. Archives of Neurology by F W Mott, London County Council (1903)
"In other cases there was a distinct relationship between the degree of hypotonus
and the ataxy of the limbs, and if there was a difference in the degree of ..."
5. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1921)
"Gastric hypotonus—An evident loss of tone shown by sagging and expansion of the
... hypotonus alone possesses little significance, for it is an expected ..."
6. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"ments, reveal a type of muscular hypotonus in cerebellar affections which is ...
One feature of this hypotonus noted by Stewart and Holmes is striking. ..."
7. International Clinics by Henry W. Cattell (1901)
"This hypotonus of muscles, especially around joints, is important for two reasons.
... Where the muscular hypotonus is excessive, the question of proper ..."
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