(a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.
(a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.
(a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
(n.) A word that has no accent.
(n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.
(n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(2) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(3) As it is, the victims of the 1971 act die un-atoned.
(4) Morrison, atoning for his earlier miss, drilled home Rondón’s acrobatic cutback to pull a goal back for Albion but within seven minutes Chelsea had a third.
(5) But the Conservatives should be asking Kaminski to withdraw his statements about Jedwabne, apologise for his attacks on a brave Polish president, Alexander Kwasniewski, who, like Willy Brandt, was willing to make symobolic atonement for the crimes done to Jews in the second world war.
(6) Atonic drop attacks appear to be a common cause of ictal epileptic falling in MAEE.
(7) Callosotomy proved efficient in controlling atonic fits in 10 out of 15 patients in whom surgical results are evaluated.
(8) The two countries are locked in a long-running territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea , known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and Senkakus to the Japanese, and China complains Japan has failed to fully atone for its brutality in the second world war.
(9) 1 The action of three polypeptides, bradykinin, substance P and eledoisin known to inhibit vascular smooth muscle has been examined on the anococcygeus muscle of the rat, cat and rabbit.2 In the atonic rat muscle, bradykinin and substance P had little or no effect on tone but eledoisin produced a sustained dose-related contraction which could be abolished by phentolamine (1 muM) and is, therefore, probably an indirect sympathomimetic effect.
(10) If we lived in the Roman era, the driving goal of our culture might have been dignity; in the dark ages, honour, in the middle ages, atonement.
(11) Equally, punishment must be proportionate and fair and those who are incarcerated must have the prospect of atonement and rehabilitation.
(12) Direct observation of an atonic uterus at cesarean section supported other evidence that uterine muscle may be affected.
(13) One woman suffered from atonic post-partum haemorrhage.
(14) 8 findings specific to endometriosis and the scores were as follows: Dysmenorrhea (1), dyspareunia (3), retroverted uterus (3), cul-de-sac nodularities (3), atonic (1) and marginal irregularity (1) of uterus, and perifimbrial adhesion (2) in hysterosalpingography, and unexplained infertility (2).
(15) In our case, atonic partial seizure was associated with nonepileptic equilibrium impairment, probably due to cerebral cortex dysfunction.
(16) According to urodynamic findings the patients were divided into 2 groups: group 1 consisted of 9 neonates (30 per cent) with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and high pressure, decreased-compliance bladders, and group 2 consisted of 21 children (70 per cent) with atonic bladders and low pressure, reduced-compliance bladders without dyssynergia.
(17) Treatment can vary from none at all (eg, in the child with a single febrile seizure) to the use of more than one drug and the ketogenic diet (eg, in poorly controlled atypical absence, atonic, and some myoclonic disorders).
(18) Similar complaints may occur in elderly people or in women with gynaecological problems owing to atonic urinary retention.
(19) 5 women had abnormal gestations visible macroscopically, by their green, brown, clotted, folded or atonic gestational sac.
(20) -- Intravenous infusion of per-minute amounts between 40 and 80 micrograms in cases of atonic haemorrhage or between 30 and 45 micrograms in the placental period, in general, produced uterine contraction and clearly reduced blood loss.
Flaccid
Definition:
(a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ruthenium red (RuR) inhibits Ca2+ uptake and transmitter release in synaptosomes, and produces flaccid paralysis when injected intraperitoneally (IP) and convulsions after intracranial administration.
(2) The barostat quantitates muscular wall tone indirectly by measuring its reciprocal, e.g., the volume of air within a flaccid intraluminal bag that is maintained at a constant and preselected pressure, by an electronic feedback mechanism.
(3) The protein synthesis rate was lower in the central core than in the periphery of incubated flaccid control muscles.
(4) On admission, he was comatose and flaccid with his four extremities.
(5) The sodium ionophore monensin induces a suppression of motility, leading to a rapid flaccid paralysis (in approximately 1.5 h at 1 x 10(-7) M, and within a few minutes at higher concentrations).
(6) The aim of the article is to show that its indication to reinforce flaccid musculature or to cover muscular defects of the abdominal wall is fully justified even in a time of routine use of plastic nets.
(7) We studied the influence of sepsis on muscle protein synthesis and degradation in vivo and in muscles, incubated flaccid or at resting length.
(8) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
(9) We also confirm that a tetanus toxin-derived fragment, the Ibc fragment, which is not transported retrogradely, produces flaccid paralysis.
(10) This negative pressure of the anterior mediastinum would result from an absent cardiac mass which was displaced leftward, favoured by an enlarged and flaccid pericardial sac.
(11) We analyzed the results of transfers of the iliopsoas or external oblique muscles performed to augment the abductor power of the hips in 149 patients with flaccid paralysis of the hips.
(12) The neurological manifestations developed during adolescence with slurred and slow speech with scanning, muscle flaccidity, sings of Trömner and Jacobson, intentional tremor, equilibrium disturbances.
(13) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
(14) The results suggest that a noradrenergic alpha-adrenoceptor system maintains penile flaccidity in the dog.
(15) Of the four surviving cases with flaccid paralysis, three had residual weakness in their lower limbs and walked with an abnormal gait 3 years after the acute paralytic attack.
(16) An infant presented at birth with symmetrical flaccid paraparesis limited to lower legs and feet, and involving the proximal and distal muscle group.
(17) Rats injected with 10(6) 9L gliosarcoma cells showed progressive weight loss, flaccid paralysis, and neurogenic bladder dysfunction and had a median survival of 11 days.
(18) Moreover, combined beta-endorphin and haloperidol treatment produced flaccidity in most animals.
(19) The stimulator has been working satisfactorily since November 1965.This stimulator could eventually also be used in purely sensory sacral lesions, in well-selected incomplete lower motor neuron lesions, and in flaccid detrusors of the myogenic type.A review of the literature up to the time of this report shows only a few encouraging but incomplete results in humans.
(20) Six malnourished children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis caused by hypokalaemia are described.