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Definition: Clonic |
ClonicAdjective1. (medicine) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation; "clonic spasm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Clonic \Clon"ic\, adjective. [from Greek expression klo`nos violent, confused motion; compare to French clonique.]. (Websters 1913) |
"Clonic" is a common misspelling or typo for: clinic, colic, conic. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Pertaining to or of the nature of clonus. (references) |
Medicine | A rapid successive contraction of muscle followed by relaxation, leading to convulsions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Clonic |
| English words defined with "clonic": Clonic spasm ♦ myoclonus ♦ Wrist clonus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clonic": avian encephalomalacia ♦ Convulsants, crazy chick disease ♦ Epilepsy, Partial, Motor. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These seizures are sometimes referred to as petit mal seizures, which is an older term. Tonic seizures cause stiffening of muscles of the body, generally those in the back, legs, and arms. Clonic seizures cause repeated jerking movements of muscles on both sides of the body. Myoclonic seizures cause jerks or twitches of the upper body, arms, or legs. Atonic seizures cause a loss of normal muscle tone. The affected person will fall down or may nod his or her head involuntarily. (references) | |
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| "Clonic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clonic" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "clonic": Clonic spasm. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "clonic": Tonic-Clonic, tonic-clonic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tonic clonic seizure | 21 |
clonic | 11 |
tonic clonic | 6 |
generalized tonic clonic seizure | 3 |
clonic seizure | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clonic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | klonisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | clonisch (clonal), klonisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tahdottomasti nykivä, klooninen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | clonique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | klonisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλονικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | clonico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onicclay clônico, espasmódico (cramped, fitful, spasmodic, spastic), /. (various references) clónico (clonal, clone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clonic": clonicities, clonicity. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "clonic": anticyclonic, cyclonic, myoclonic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "clonic": cyclonically. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "clonic" (pronounced 'Clon"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: colic, colin, conic, nicol. | |
-2 letters: cion, clon, coil, coin, coni, icon, lino, lion, loci, loin, noil. | |
-3 letters: col, con, ion, lin, nil, oil. | |
-4 letters: in, li, lo, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: colicin, colonic, conical, council, laconic. | |
+2 letters: clocking, cockling, colicine, colicins, colonics, conflict, cornicle, councils, cyclonic, floccing, glyconic, iconical, lactonic, volcanic. | |
+3 letters: canonical, chronicle, clonicity, cochineal, colicines, conciliar, concisely, conflicts, conically, cornicles, councilor, glyconics, myoclonic, niccolite, noncyclic, nucleonic, occluding, occlusion, occulting, oncologic, reconcile, volcanics. | |
+4 letters: calcinoses, calcinosis, calcitonin, canonicals, caracoling, carbonylic, catholicon, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, coalescing, cochineals, colchicine, collecting, collection, colocating, compliance, compliancy, concealing, conchoidal, conciliate, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, conflicted, councillor, councilman, councilmen, councilors, cuckolding, cyclodiene, economical, electronic, iconically, iconoclasm, iconoclast, inculcator, lactogenic, leucocidin, lincomycin, microcline, monoclinic, monocyclic, neoclassic, niccolites, noncaloric, nucleonics, occasional, occidental, occlusions, polyclinic, reconciled, reconciler, reconciles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 6F 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l o n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 006F 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377881807569 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés |
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