Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A state of reduced pressure of the intraocular fluid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, ophthalmology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: floppy infant syndrome, floppy baby syndrome
Antonyms: none provided
noun
(of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hypotonus, hypotonicity
Antonyms: hypertonia
Broader terms: tonicity, tonus, tone
History
From New Latin hypotonia, from hypo- + Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos) + -ia. By surface analysis, hypo- + -tonia.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
