Tonus Definition

tōnəs
tonuses
noun
The slight, continuous partial contraction characteristic of a normal relaxed muscle.
Webster's New World
Body or muscular tone; tonicity.
American Heritage Medicine
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Noun

Singular:
tonus
Plural:
tonuses

Origin of Tonus

  • From Latin tonus (“a sound, tone"). See tone.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin tone tone

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tonus Sentence Examples

  • The receptive organs of the muscular sense and of the semicircular canals are to be regarded as the sites of origin of this reflex tonus of the skeletal muscles.

  • Striped muscles possessing an autochthonous tonus appear to be the various sphincter muscles.

  • There slowly successive phases of increased and of diminished tonus regularly alternate, and upon them are superposed the rhythmic "beats" of the pulsating heart.

  • This gentle continuous activity of the neuron is called its tonus.

  • In tracing the tonus of neurons to a source, one is always led link by link against the current of nerve force - so to say, "up stream" - to the first beginnings of the chain of neurons in the sensifacient surfaces of the body.

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TTOTON

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SUSNUS

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