Tonus

Definition: Tonus

Tonus

Noun

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

Etymology: Tonus \To"nus\, noun. [Latin expression sound, tone. See Tone.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Tonus

Domain	Definition
Medicine	A state of slight tension usually present in muscles even when they are not underdoing active contraction. Source: European Union. (references)
	A force in a material tending to produce extension; the state of being stretched. Source: European Union. (references)
	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: Tonus

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

Antonym: atonicity (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tonus

English words defined with "tonus": amyotonia, atonia, atonic, atonicity, atony ♦ catatonia ♦ tonic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tonus": Holm theory ♦ Periaqueductal Gray. (references)

Etymologies containing "tonus": Binotonous ♦ Thermotonus. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Tonus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (tone), Dutch (tone), German (tone), Latin (a sound, accent, tone), Serbo-Croatian (tone).

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Usage Frequency: Tonus

"Tonus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tonus" 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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Expressions: Tonus

Expressions using "tonus": Muscle Tonus ♦ muscular tonus. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tonus

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
tonus	8
connective tissue tonus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tonus

Language		Translations for "tonus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		тонус (tone, tonicity). (various references)

Danish		tonus, tonicitet (state of tension, tonicity), spaending (electromotive force, potential difference, stress, tension, twist, voltage). (various references)

Dutch		tensio (stress, tension), tensie (tension), spanning (anxiety, tension, voltage). (various references)

French		tonus, tonicité (tone, tonicity), tension. (various references)

German		Tonus (tone), Tonizität (tonicity), Spannung (excitement, fixture, strain, stress, suspense, tautness, tension, tightness, voltage), spannkraft (resilience, tension, tone, tonicity, vigor, vigour). (various references)

Greek		ευτονία (normal tonus). (various references)

Italian		tono (accent, intonation, key, note, pitch, ring, sound, strain, tone, tune), tonicit� (tonicity), tensione (strain, stress, stretch, tension, tightness, voltage). (various references)

Pig Latin		onustay

Portuguese		tensão (bent, jitters, pressure, strain, straining, tension, voltage), tónus (tension). (various references)

Spanish		tono normal (normal tonus), tono muscular mantenido (prolonged tonus), eutonía (normal tonus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tonus

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tonus": tonuses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "tonus": electrotonus. (additional references)
	Words containing "tonus": electrotonuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tonus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Donus, gonus, ionus, Tansu, Taunus, Timnus, tinus, tolus, tomus, tonaw, tondu, Tondut, tonish, Tonkunst, tonu, tonul, Tonuu, tonuw, tonys, tonyu, tornus, toungs, Tounis, tous, touz, tunnus, tzniut. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tonus"

Words rhyming with "tonus" (pronounced 'To"nus'): Agnus, Alumnus, Anthrenus, Anus, Bonus, Cincinnus, Clonus, Conus, Cothurnus, Cygnus, Echinus, genus, Janus, Marbrinus, Onus, Pandanus, Pannus, Pignus, Pinus, subgenus, Tabanus, Turnus, Uncinus, Varanus, Venus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tonus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: snout.
	Words within the letters "n-o-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: nous, nuts, onus, oust, outs, snot, stun, tons, tuns, unto.
	-2 letters: nos, not, nus, nut, ons, out, son, sot, sou, sun, ton, tun, uns, uts.
	-3 letters: no, nu, on, os, so, to, un, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "n-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: counts, donuts, founts, futons, juntos, knouts, mounts, mutons, outsin, puntos, putons, snouts, snouty, stound, unstop.
	+2 letters: amounts, astound, boutons, burtons, buttons, cobnuts, conatus, consult, contuse, gunshot, hognuts, moutons, muttons, neuston, nitrous, nonsuit, nostrum, nougats, noughts, obtunds, ousting, outguns, outings, outmans, outruns, outsang, outseen, outsing, outsins, outspan, outsung, plutons, runouts, santour, shotgun, snouted, soutane, spinout, stounds, stouten, subtone, suction, sunspot, tenours, tenuous, tenutos, tongues, tonsure, tonuses, toucans, tousing, turnons, unbolts, unknots, unroots, unstops, uptowns.
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