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Tonicity   Listen
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Tonicity  n.  (Physiol.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.





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... or system known as the limp or relaxed school, or the system of complete relaxation. The object of this relaxation is to overcome muscular tension and rigidity. This is the other extreme. The followers of this school forget that there can be no tonicity without tension. Flexible firmness without rigidity, the result of flexible, vitalized position and action, is the only true condition. The tone of the school of relaxation is nearly always depressed and breathy; it always ...
— The Renaissance of the Vocal Art • Edmund Myer


Words linked to "Tonicity" :   tautness, hypotonia, myotonia, muscle, hypertonicity, muscular tissue, tonic, hypertonus, hypotonicity, tonus, muscle tone, tenseness, hypotonus


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