Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of normal muscle tone.
- noun Lack of accent or stress.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, a want of tone; defect of muscular power; weakness of any organ, particularly of one that is contractile; debility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of
muscle tone ;flaccidity oratonia
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lack of normal muscular tension or tonus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The risk of bleeding from uterine atony is minimized by coordination between the surgeon and anesthesiologist to decrease the concentration of inhalation anesthetic and to administer oxytocin to contract the uterus before cutting the umbilical cord.
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To overcome this "atony" of two or more feet of the lower bowel, a little "nutritious" suppository, weighing twenty grains, is a
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Its authors have discovered that the "rectal nerve-tissues" are hungry, torpid, anemic, and to overcome the "atony" they must be "_Fed!
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If someone is writing his thesis for a fourth masters, does he ever expect to get a job, or is he a professional student? atony and lido
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The three main causes of post-partum hemorrhage are uterine atony; vaginal, cervical, or perineal lacerations; and retained placenta or placental fragments.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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The three main causes of post-partum hemorrhage are uterine atony; vaginal, cervical, or perineal lacerations; and retained placenta or placental fragments.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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By far the most common cause of postpartum hemorrhage is that the muscles of the uterus do not contract well enough, a condition known as uterine atony.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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By far the most common cause of postpartum hemorrhage is that the muscles of the uterus do not contract well enough, a condition known as uterine atony.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth THE BOSTON WOMEN’S HEALTH BOOK COLLECTIVE 2008
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Heavy bleeding can occur if your uterus relaxes too much (uterine atony) or if some fetal or placental tissue is left in the uterus (retained tissue or incomplete abortion).
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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The doctors used words like uterine atony and artery ligation, disseminated intravascular coagulation, but all I heard was that I couldn't have any more children.
Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005
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