Crossword clues for atony
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Atony \At"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ? slackness; 'a priv. + ? tone, strength, ? to stretch: cf. F. atonie.] (Med.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.
Wiktionary
n. Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia
WordNet
Wikipedia
In medicine, atony (; also atonia) is a condition in which a muscle has lost its strength. It is frequently associated with the conditions atonic seizure, atonic colon, uterine atony, gastrointestinal atony (occurs postoperatively) and choreatic atonia.
Atony can also refer to the paralyzed or extremely relaxed state of skeletal muscles in rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep) in most warm-blooded animals.
The term atony comes from the Ancient Greek ἀτονία (atonia), "slackness, debility".
Usage examples of "atony".
Temperature normal, lungs clear, only rumenal atony and extreme tenderness as I palpated the abdomen.
Temperature normal, lungs clear, only rumenal atony and extreme tenderness as I palpated the abdomen.
It is a case of disheartening atony for which there is no possible cure.
He had tried, briefly, to live a quiet life like Breck, but he was unskilled as a farmer and clumsy as a carpenter, and so had returned to the only thing he had ever excelled atonce again, he became a soldier.