Tonicity

Definition: Tonicity

Tonicity

Noun

1. The elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity".

Specialty Definition: Tonicity

Domain	Definition
Medicine	The normal state of muscular tension. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tonicity

Synonyms: tone (n), tonus (n). (additional references)

Antonym: atonicity (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tonicity

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Strength	Noun: strength; power; energy; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tonicity

English words defined with "tonicity": muscle tone, muscular tonus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tonicity": dystonia ♦ hypomyotonia, hypotonia, hypotonus, hypotony ♦ Intracranial Hypotension. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Tonicity

"Tonicity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tonicity" is used about 3 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
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tonicity

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
tonicity	6
hypertonic osmosis tonicity	2
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Modern Translation: Tonicity

Language		Translations for "tonicity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏قوة إنقباض العضلات, ‏تحظرب. (various references)

Bulgarian		тонус (tone, tonus). (various references)

Danish		tonicitet (state of tension, tonus), spaendingstilstand (state of tension). (various references)

Dutch		spanningstoestand (state of tension). (various references)

French		tonicité (tone). (various references)

German		Tonizität (tonus), Spannungszustand (state of tension). (various references)

Greek		σφρίγοσ (kick, peppiness, vigor, vigour), τονικότησ (tonality), τονικότητα (tonality). (various references)

Italian		tono (accent, intonation, key, note, pitch, ring, sound, strain, tone, tune), tonicit� (tonus), stato di tensione (state of tension, stress). (various references)

Pig Latin		onicitytay

Portuguese		estado de tensão (state of tension). (various references)

Turkish		ton niteliği, ton (cast, chord, color, colour, gradation, long ton, manner, metric ton, short ton, tint, ton, tone, tonne, value). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính l� m cho cường tính cương. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tonicity

Derivations
	Words ending with "tonicity": hypertonicity, hypotonicity, isotonicity, monotonicity. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tonicity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conicity, nomicity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tonicity"

Words rhyming with "tonicity" (pronounced 'To*nic"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tonicity

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-o-t-t-y"
	-2 letters: otitic.
	-3 letters: cyton, ionic, nitty, ontic, tinct, tonic, yonic.
	-4 letters: cion, city, coin, coni, cony, icon, inti, into, otic, tint, tiny, titi, toit, tony, tyin, yoni.
	-5 letters: con, cot, coy, icy, ion, nit, not, tic, tin, tit, ton, tot, toy, yin, yon.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-o-t-t-y"
	+2 letters: contiguity, continuity.
	+3 letters: cytokinetic, isotonicity, pinocytotic, tyrothricin.
	+4 letters: anticipatory, biosynthetic, conductivity, connectivity, countability, fictionality, hypotonicity, interdictory, intersociety, mitogenicity, monotonicity, tinctorially, toxigenicity, typification, tyrothricins.
	+5 letters: actinomycotic, antiobscenity, antipsychotic, concentricity, contractility, discontinuity, egocentricity, functionality, hypertonicity, incontinently, intoxicatedly, microtonality, mystification, neurotoxicity, noncreativity, pathogenicity, typifications.
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