MUSCLE TONE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does muscle tone mean? 

• MUSCLE TONE (noun)
  The noun MUSCLE TONE has 1 sense:

1. normal tonicity of the muscles

  Familiarity information: MUSCLE TONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCLE TONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Normal tonicity of the muscles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

muscle tone; muscular tonus

Context example:

exercise improves muscle tone

Hypernyms ("muscle tone" is a kind of...):

tone; tonicity; tonus (the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli)

 Context examples 

There is no loss of the muscle tone.

(Petit Mal Epilepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition of increased muscle tone manifested by increased resistance of the muscle to passive stretching.

(Hypertonia, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include loss of speech, trouble swallowing and eating, loss of balance, trouble walking, loss of muscle tone, mood swings, and changes in personality.

(Cerebellar mutism syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Signs and symptoms include mental and developmental delays, walking and balance difficulties, floppy muscle tone, and seizures.

(Congenital Cerebellar Hypoplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include irritability, increased muscle tone, seizures, and hydrocephalus.

(Hydranencephaly, NCI Thesaurus)

Narcolepsy is a disorder that makes people feel excessively sleepy during the day and sometimes experience changes reminiscent of REM sleep, like loss of muscle tone in the limbs and hallucinations.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

A rare disorder characterized by sudden and transient episodes of loss of muscle tone.

(Cataplexy, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms appear in infancy and include mental retardation, loss of motor skills, abnormal muscle tone, feeding difficulties and a very large head.

(Canavan Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

These areas are breathing, muscle tone, pulse rate, reflex irritability and skin color.

(Apgar Score, NCI Thesaurus)

A subtype of cerebral palsy characterized by both the tight muscle tone of spastic cerebral palsy and the writhing, involuntary muscle movements of athetoid cerebral palsy.

(Mixed Cerebral Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)