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imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air"

relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; "tonic harmony"

imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air"

(physiology) of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue; "a tonic reflex"; "tonic muscle contraction"

relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale; "tonic harmony"

Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

Pertaining to sounds; tending to strengthen; bracing.

The keynote of a scale or composition in music; a strengthening medicine.

1. In a state of continuous, unremitting action, noting especially a muscular contraction. 2. Increasing physical or mental tone or strength, invigorating. 3. A remedy which restores enfeebled function and promotes vigor and a sense of well-being. Tonics are qualified, according to the organ or system upon which they act, as cardiac, digestive, hematic, vascular, nervine, uterine, general, etc.

Relating to tones or sounds: (med.) giving tone and vigor to the system: giving or increasing strength.

A medicine that increases vigor; in mus., the key-note.

Relating to tones; pertaining to the key-note; giving vigor to the system.

Invigorating; bracing.

Pertaining to tone or tones.

A tonic medicine or anything invigorating.

Increasing tension or strength, specially tone in the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

A medicine that gives tone and vigour of nerve and muscle, especially to the system; the key-note; the sound produced by a vocal string in a given degree of tension Tonic spasm, a continuous spasmodic contraction.

Increasing tension; giving or increasing strength; imparting vigour to the bodily system; strengthening; pert. to tones or sounds; in music, denoting the key-note.

A medicine or agent which imparts vigour and strength to the body; a stomachic; in music, the key-note or fundamental sound which generates all the rest.

See under tone.

Producing and restoring normal tone.

Characterized by continuous tension.

An agent which tends to restore normal tone.

Possessing the property of maintaining or promoting the tone of the system; as a n., a drug possessing that property.

Characterized by continuous contraction (said of muscular spasm).

n. A medicine that increases the strength and gives vigour of action to the system;-the key-tone or first tone of the scale.