NOUN
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the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
the doctor tested my tonicity
How To Use tonicity In A Sentence
- Serum sodium concentration or tonicity are functions of water content relative to total body sodium content.
- The hypothesis of the study was that acupuncture would reduce muscle hypertonicity in children with cerebral palsy.
- But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue. The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male
- The hypertonicity of the radiopaque agent draws fluid into the bowel to facilitate passage and expulsion of the tenacious meconium.
- Infant colic is characterized by excessive and inconsolable crying, hypertonicity, and wakefulness, mainly in the evening.
- Thus, it is essential to monitor urine flow, serum tonicity, and body weight during the deprivation.
- Betaine is one of several compounds used by cells to regulate osmotic pressure and has been recognized as an important osmolyte that maintains cellular tonicity.
- IRV can fail this criterion, as it did in the Burlington, VT mayoral election of 2009, as well as the monotonicity criterion discussed above. Matthew Yglesias » David Miliband Doesn’t Know What Century It Is
- He's the man who correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically. The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein
- It is because the solution has the same tonicity as blood.