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noun
Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
lack of normal muscular tension or tonus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: atonicity, atonia, amyotonia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condition, status
History
Borrowed from New Latin atonia, from Ancient Greek ἀτονία (atonía, “languor”), from ἄτονος (átonos, “languid”), from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + τόνος (tónos, “accent”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).
Across languages
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