ATONY
\ɐtˈə͡ʊni], \ɐtˈəʊni], \ɐ_t_ˈəʊ_n_i]\
Definitions of ATONY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Want of tone. Weakness of every organ, and particularly of those that are contractile. Violent gastritis has been described by Scribonius Largus under a similar name, Arovov, Atonon.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Weakness, relaxation, lack of tone or of normal contractile power [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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