Tonicity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Normal firmness or functional readiness in body tissues or organs.
  • n. The sustained partial contraction of resting or relaxed muscles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus
  • n. The ability of a solution to exert an osmotic pressure upon a membrane
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In zoology, occasionally employed to denote the quality of dead, as well as living, tissue.
  • n. Tone; the state or property of possessing tone or of being tonic; specifically, in physiol; the elasticity of living parts—a property of the muscles which is distinct from true irritability, and determines the general tone of the solids.
  • n. In music. See the quotation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tautness    tenseness    tensity    tension   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tone    tonus   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    myosin    apatite    beamwidth    interleave    doping    preclear    denaturation    turgidity    consecutus    growth