(n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common cause of hemorrhage is uterine atony.
(2) Initial endoscopic examination showed moderate caustic esophagitis in all patients, and esophageal atony and poor distension were early roentgenographic observations.
(3) There is no evidence that distension, of the type used here, ever gives rise to "stretching" or "atony" of the bladder: and it is questionable whether distension of a lesser degree, such as may be found in acute urinary retention, ever does so either.
(4) Abnormal duodenal peristalsis with atony may follow vagotomy, pyloroplasty, gastroduodenostomy or excisional duodenal biopsy and may thus result in functional obstruction.
(5) The nine patients receiving the placebo were unable to retain any oral feedings and were then given oral metoclopramide which promptly relieved gastric atony.
(6) Postpartum atony with haemorrhage is a life-threatening condition which may necessitate surgical intervention with ligation of the ascending arterial branches or hysterectomy.
(7) The radiologic signs of diabetic gastric neuropathy consist of ineffectual peristalsis, solid gastric residue, elongated sausage-shaped stomach, gastric barium retention, and duodenal bulb atony.
(8) Excessive bleeding after delivery may result from uterine atony, disruption of the genital tract, placental abnormalities, coagulation disorders and miscellaneous obstetric complications.
(9) The commonest complications of surgical procedure, were related with the urinary tract: atony bladder observed in 27.6% of patients, vesico-vaginal fistulas in 7.8% and uretero-vaginal fistulas, in 5.5%.
(10) Physical examination findings were signs of depression, dehydration, cachexia, bradycardia, bilateral nonresponsive mydriasis, prolapse of both nictitating membranes, dry oral and nasal mucous membranes, and urinary bladder atony.
(11) Pathogenesis of acute gastric atony in the deprived child is related to structural and functional changes in the stomach due to chronic starvation, and the acute ingestion of a large meal.
(12) The gastric atony associated with diabetic coma has to be differentiated from the condition under discussion.
(13) The indications for hysterectomy were placental disorder (60.0%), uterine atony (26.7%), and uterine rupture (13.3%).
(14) The earliest toxic signs were muscle tremors, tachycardia and rumen atony.
(15) caused persistent deficits characterized by motor and sensory impairments in hindlimbs and tail, hindlimb edema, priapism, bladder atony with infarction, and urinary incontinence.
(16) The most frequent indication for caesarean section followed hysterectomy was placenta praevia (28%) and the most frequent indication for hysterectomy was atony and coagulopathy (32%).
(17) The most common cause is uterine atony, and initial therapy is conservative in these patients.
(18) Changes in autonomic function, particularly orthostatic hypotension and bladder atony, are likely causes of disability in the postoperative period.
(19) Despite normal urological anatomy, each patient had a bladder rupture that we attributed to atony of the bladder coupled with the Credé maneuver, which produced high intravesical pressures.
(20) Seven patients with a rare syndrome of diabetes insipidus (DI), diabetes mellitus (DM), optic atrophy (OA), neurosensory deafness (D), atony of the urinary tract, and other abnormalities (Wolfram or DIDMOAD syndrome) are reported.
Stony
Definition:
(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) Digital examination revealed that the prostate became stony-hard and larger 10 weeks after the initial BCG immunotherapy.
(3) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(4) Not because the arts and humanities are especially hard to legitimise, but because everything is hard to justify when your opponent is standing there with crossed arms and a stony face.
(5) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(6) It would face the same challenges and would continue to act in much the same way, steering the country towards new elections in late 2017 or 2018 and pursuing the stony path of incremental economic reform.
(7) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(8) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
(9) No one is considered universally funny: there will always be someone stony-faced and dry-eyed in a room filled with hilarity, wondering what everyone else is laughing at.
(10) To a stony-faced audience at a conference organised by Learning Without Frontiers, she said: "We should recognise and embrace some of the good things that came out of the 19th century."
(11) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(12) Watched stony-faced by the Israeli delegation led by ambassador Ron Prosor, Abbas on Wednesday called for the international community to recognise Palestine as a state under occupation in the same way that countries were occupied in the second world war.
(13) If one of the first signs of ageing is being irritated by the young, I'd transformed into the ultimate short-fused, stony-eyed Methuselah.
(14) To help meet the need for physician manpower in preventive medicine a new residency was established at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in July 1983.
(15) The Stony Brook Child Psychiatric Checklist, a parent completed rating instrument based on DSM-III-R, was used as part of a psychiatric inpatient admission evaluation.
(16) At the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the surgical clerkship became mandatory in 1976.
(17) Labour's riposte will be that the more difficult the economic news the stronger the yearning will be for a "change election" on the economy and the greater the premium on fairness in austerity – fertile terrain for Miliband, stony ground for the incumbent Cameron.
(18) The gland becomes stony hard, is not displaceable and, characteristically, the fibrous tissue penetrates the capsule and infiltrates into surrounding structures such as muscles, vessels, nerves and even the trachea.
(19) The liver was markedly enlarged and of stony consistency.
(20) The anti-Trident activists wave at the Faslane workers as they come and go; the workers remain stony-faced.