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Definition of Tonically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonically
Literary usage of Tonically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Problems of Drug Dependence: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting by Louie S. Harrie (1999)
"The purpose of the present study, therefore, was to test the hypothesis that this
putative neurochemical system is tonically active in cognitive processing ..."
2. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"The data indicate that section of the depressor nerves may raise the blood
pressure, and that they are therefore tonically active, at least at times. ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Thus, if the Rectus femoris remain tonically of such length that, when stretched
over the extended hip, it compels extension of the knee ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The abdominal wall is tonically contracted, and the reserve of blood is driven from
... The thorax is tonically elevated and the thoracic cavity enlarged, ..."
5. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1915)
"... tonically contracted. The evidence that the stomach is in fact strongly
contracted in hunger—ie, in a state of high tonus—has been presented above. ..."
6. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"... is dependent on the stretching of gastric muscle when tonically contracted.
The evidence that the stomach is in fact strongly contracted in hunger—ie, ..."
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