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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. lack of normal muscular tension or tonus;
[syn: atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Atony \At"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ? slackness; 'a priv. + ? tone, strength, ? to stretch: cf. F. atonie.] (Med.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

atony n 1: lack of normal muscular tension or tonus [syn: atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia] [ant: tone, tonicity, tonus]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "atony": adynamia, anemia, blah feeling, bloodlessness, cachexia, cachexy, cowardice, debilitation, debility, dullness, etiolation, faintness, fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, impotence, languishment, languor, lassitude, listlessness, prostration, sluggishness, softness, strengthlessness, weakliness, weakness, weariness