tonus in English

noun
1
the constant low-level activity of a body tissue, especially muscle tone.
Also, subjacent vascular smooth muscle cells increase their tonus .

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1. Muscle tonus is, in a sense, the beginning of behavior.

2. The second was the female victim, great weakness and complete lack of physical tonus.

3. During physical activity increased sympathetic tonus and loading conditions for the heart point into the opposite direction.

4. Long - term atropine treatment school myopia can eliminate accommodation tonus , prevent or retard the progress of myopia.

5. ▪ Electromyogram —Used to monitor the tonus of chin and leg muscles during REM sleep.

6. Long-term atropine treatment of school myopia can eliminate accommodation tonus, prevent or retard the progress of myopia.

7. 29 Long - term atropine treatment school myopia can eliminate accommodation tonus , prevent or retard the progress of myopia.

8. Naturally, then, when you stand up to talk to a group of people, the tonus of your muscles will rise.

9. When blood pressure rises, Baroreceptors send impulses to the central nervous system that decrease the tonus of the vascular center and

10. This finding can be explained by the high tonus of the rectum oral to the aganglionic bowel which was left after rectal myectomy.

11. Also, the internal architecture of bones is in part influenced by muscle tonus , which in turn depends on central nervous system activity.

12. However, if we think of the waxing and waning of tonus as being either above or below some arbitrary level, we can simplify the situation considerably.

13. For example, standing up from a reclining or sitting position would entail an unsustainable drop in blood pressure if not for a compensatory increase in the arterial sympathetic tonus.

14. It is known that acetylcholine and histamine directly or indirectly enhance the tonus of the bronchial muscular system as far as bronchospasms are concerned. 125 seconds after inhalation of an acetylcholine or histamine aerosol, “static” compliance was found reduced in only one of 12 anaesthetized and relaxed dogs.

15. For these stereotyped responses it was the location of the stimulus which played a major role rather than the different distribution of muscle tonus or the segmental dermatomo-myotomal correspondence: in the trunk and limb girdles, the sensitive (reflexogenic) zones were localized directly over the respective muscle bellies; in the extremities they were more distally over the tendons and for the finger and/or toe movements, they were shifted toward the acral skin areas of the extremities.