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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli;
- Example: "the doctor tested my tonicity"
[syn: tonicity, tonus, tone]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tonus \To"nus\, n. [L. a sound, tone. See Tone.] (Physiol.)
   Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tonus
    n 1: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that
         facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my
         tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant:
         amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]