Atony

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Atony \At"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ? slackness; 'a priv. + ? tone,
     strength, ? to stretch: cf. F. atonie.] (Med.)
     Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ,
     especially of such as are contractile.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  atony
       n : lack of normal muscular tension or tonus [syn: {atonicity},
           {atonia}, {amyotonia}] [ant: {tonicity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "atony":
     adynamia, anemia, blah feeling, bloodlessness, cachexia, cachexy,
     cowardice, debilitation, debility, dullness, etiolation, faintness,
     fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, impotence,
     languishment, languor, lassitude, listlessness, prostration,
     sluggishness, softness, strengthlessness, weakliness, weakness,
     weariness