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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

22 Moby Thesaurus words for "tonus": adaptability, bounce, bounciness, buoyance, buoyancy, elasticity, extensibility, flexibility, give, liveliness, rebound, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, snap, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, tone, tonicity