Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not accented.
- adjective Medicine Relating to, caused by, or exhibiting lack of muscle tone.
- noun A word, syllable, or sound that is unaccented.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In pathology, characterized by atony, or want of tone or power: as, an atonic disease.
- In philology: Unaccented. Produced by the breath alone; surd.
- noun In medicine, a drug capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
- noun In philology: A word or syllable that has no accent.
- noun An elementary sound produced by the breath; a surd consonant; a breathing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Characterized by atony, or lack of vital energy.
- adjective (Gram.) Unaccented.
- adjective Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
- noun (Gram.) A word that has no accent.
- noun An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.
- noun (Med.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Referring to a
syllable or sound that is spoken withoutaccent orstress . - adjective pathology Lacking
muscle tone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by a lack of tonus
- adjective used of syllables
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This state has been absurdly enough called the atonic gout, as if there were a gout accompanied with vigour and sthenic diathesis: but the absence of inflammation in the extremities may depend on two causes.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
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The researchers did find that women who used triptans in their second or third trimester were more likely to develop a condition called atonic uterus, in which the uterus fails to contract back to its normal size after delivery.
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The researchers did find that women who used triptans in their second or third trimester were more likely to develop a condition called atonic uterus, in which the uterus fails to contract back to its normal size after delivery.
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A sequence of atonic closed vowel + open vowel + atonic closed vowel can be pronounced, in certain cases, as one syllable, a triphthong, and in others as two distinct syllables, with a hiatus followed by a diphthong, or vice versa.
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For a triphthong to exist, two closed atonic vowels (“i” or “u”) and, between them, an open vowel (“a”, “e”, or “o”): anunciáis, guau, miau, confiéis.
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However, for purposes of graphic accenting, any sequence made up of an open vowel between two closed atonic vowels will always be considered as a triphthong, regardless of its actual articulation in one or two syllables.
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Have any of you been informed that eventually a person cannot live on the tube feeding, that the bowel will begin to not absorb the nutrients, and that it will become atonic or atrophied?
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The elderly can have atonic constipation secondary to nerve dysfunction that reduces or halts peristalsis.
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Oh K, I did get a little bit TOO inebriated at one point, but it was nice for me to be KAT-atonic for a bit, as a reminder for how wonderful it is to have my wits about me.
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Oh K, I did get a little bit TOO inebriated at one point, but it was nice for me to be KAT-atonic for a bit, as a reminder for how wonderful it is to have my wits about me.
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