a deficiency of usual or expected tone in the muscles
a type of muscular immobility, called atonia, caused by the total relaxation of themuscles
Examples of 'atonia' in a sentence
atonia
Indications for hysterectomy were 43,2% atonia, 37,8% placenta previa, acreata and increata, 13,5% uterine rupture.
Suna Özdemir, Osman Balcı, Hüseyin Görkemli, Kazım Gezginç, Aybike Tazegül, FatmaYazıcı 2010, 'Evaluation Of Emergent Periparum Hysterectomy Cases: A Six Year Experience', Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecologyhttp://www.tjoddergisi.org/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/evaluation-of-emergent-periparum-hysterectomy-case/9317. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Overnight polysomnography showed rapid eye movement sleep without atonia.
Kazumasa Shindo, Tohko Sato, Hiroaki Murata, Yuta Ichinose, Takanori Hata, YoshihisaTakiyama 2019, 'Spinocerebellar ataxia type 31 associated with REM sleep behavior disorder: a casereport', BMC Neurologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12883-019-1238-1. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We next review their roles in postural adjustments, walking and sleep atonia, discussing their roles in movement activation or inhibition.
Robert M. Brownstone, Jeremy W. Chopek 2018, 'Reticulospinal Systems for Tuning Motor Commands', Frontiers in Neural Circuitshttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncir.2018.00030/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
During episodes of sleep paralysis, the sufferer awakens to rapid eye movement sleep-based atonia combined with conscious awareness.
Sharpless BA 2016, 'A clinician’s guide to recurrent isolated sleep paralysis', Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatmenthttps://www.dovepress.com/a-clinicianrsquos-guide-to-recurrent-isolated-sleep-paralysis-peer-reviewed-article-NDT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)