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hypotonus|haɪpəˈtəʊnəs|
[f. hypo- 4 + tonus.]
1. Ophthalm. = hypotonia 1. Now rare.
1891F. P. Foster Med. Dict. III. 1955/2 Hypotonus, that condition of the eye in which the intra-ocular tension is below normal, without being of necessity accompanied by any organic disease of the eyeball. 1918R. H. Elliot Glaucoma ii. 22 If too large and too free a channel is cut in the ocular tunic, the escape of fluid is so rapid that a condition of hypotonus results.
2. Med. = hypotonia 2.
1904Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry II. 776 The legs showed very marked hypotonus. 1928J. F. H. Dally Low Blood Pressure ii. 22 Hypotonia (vascular hypotonus) represents a dynamic and physical state of diminished tonus of the smooth muscle in the walls of arteries and veins. 1939W. Haymaker tr. Bing's Textbk. Nervous Dis. xi. 318 Hypotonus of the quadriceps is sometimes so marked in tabes that the heel can be brought up to the buttock. |