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Definition: Muscle Tone |
Muscle ToneNoun1. Normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | Muscles actually are never relaxed completely. Even at rest they are in a partially contracted state. . . such mild contractions maintain a --. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Muscle ToneSynonym: muscular tonus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Muscle Tone |
| English words defined with "muscle tone": Apgar score ♦ flaccid paralysis ♦ reticular formation, RF. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "muscle tone": Apgar, Atonic Colon ♦ Bethanechol ♦ dystonia, Dystonia Musculorum Deformans ♦ Esophageal Manometry ♦ Muscarinic Agonists, Muscle Hypertonia, Muscle Hypotonia. (references) |
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Screenplays | -Crew members are required to work out to maintain muscle tone. (Earth Star Voyager; writing credit: Ed Spielman) Everyone knows it builds up muscle tone. (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Well, how about you build up a little more muscle tone by putting on your clothes? (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Six week old infant with botulism, which is evident as a marked loss of muscle tone, especially in the region of the head and neck. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hypotonia (loss of muscle tone) is usually the first symptom. (references) | |
Physical therapy may help maintain or increase muscle tone and circulation. (references) | ||
Increased muscle tone is called hypertonia, and the baby may seem stiff or rigid. (references) | ||
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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 |
muscle tone | 68 |
low muscle tone | 24 |
exercise muscle tone | 4 |
child low muscle tone | 3 |
child in low muscle tone | 3 |
abnormal muscle tone | 2 |
maximize muscle tone | 2 |
6 day in muscle tone | 2 |
baby in low muscle tone | 2 |
build muscle tone | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "muscle tone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | tonus musculaire (muscular tone). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | izomfeszültség. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | usclemay onetay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: esculent, noctules, toluenes. | |
-3 letters: cements, cenotes, centums, clement, cleomes, columns, consult, consume, contuse, costume, coulees, counsel, eluents, enclose, loments, meltons, mesclun, noctule, omelets, outseen, telomes, toluene, tonemes, unclose, unsteel. | |
-4 letters: celoms, cement, cenote, centos, centum, cleome, clones, clonus, closet, clouts, coleus, column, comets, comtes, consul, contes, coulee, counts, culets, custom, elects, eluent, elutes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-m-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: contumelies, couplements. | |
+3 letters: nomenclatures, outplacements. | |
+4 letters: bioluminescent, commensurately, meticulousness. | |
+5 letters: conglomerateurs, counterexamples, countermelodies, mononucleotides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 63 6C 65 54 6F 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s c l e   T o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0063 006C 0065 0054 006F 006E 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)478785697871254818071 |
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