tonus

How To Use tonus In A Sentence

• This montbretia cultivar is an Alan Bloom hybrid Crocosmia x Curtonus which has flowers and foliage that are similar to gladiolus. Winter Plant Portrait-Croscosmias « Fairegarden
• Also, subjacent vascular smooth muscle cells increase their tonus.
• Muscle tonus, measured by the EMG, is also often recorded since muscle tonus decreases within sleep.
• Dendroctonus valens is a dangerous insect pest of several pine species in China.
• Since then, I have always remembered the side effects of fentanyl, particularly the increase in sphincter tonus, and all my junior colleagues hear a ‘short lecture’ from me on the subject.
• In the frog's tongue, capillary tonus is very strongly developed, in that by far the majority are completely contracted. August Krogh - Nobel Lecture
• A common genus of scolytids with a 5-segmented funicle is Dendroctonus while Hylurgopinus has a 7-segmented funicle.
• The synagogue gave to the Early Christian church some of its ancient melodies; the recitation formula of the psalm B'tset Yisrael "When Israel went forth out of Egypt", for example, survives in the Gregorian chant repertoire as the tonus peregrinus. Archive 2006-08-01
• In the traditional Roman Rite, this Psalm was sung each Sunday night at Vespers, and it has a special tone that is normally reserved for it alone: the tonus peregrinus, or "pilgrim tone," music well suited to this Psalm of the wandering of God's People in their search for the Holy Land. Archive 2006-08-01
• If the trunk is involved, shoulder shrugging, tortipelvis, opisthotonus, or scoliosis may occur.