TONUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tonus mean? 

• TONUS (noun)
  The noun TONUS has 1 sense:

1. the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

  Familiarity information: TONUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TONUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

tone; tonicity; tonus

Context example:

the doctor tested my tonicity

Hypernyms ("tonus" is a kind of...):

tautness; tenseness; tension; tensity (the physical condition of being stretched or strained)

Domain category:

muscle; muscular tissue (animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tonus"):

catatonia (extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia)

muscle tone; muscular tonus (normal tonicity of the muscles)

myotonia (abnormally long muscular contractions; slow relaxation of a muscle after a contraction)

hypertonia; hypertonicity; hypertonus ((of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic)

hypotonia; hypotonicity; hypotonus ((of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic)