(n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data obtained suggest the functional tensity of the insular tissue at the neoplastic process in the exocrine part of the pancreas.
(2) ), but that differed in such features as which syllable was stressed, the tensity of the vowel, the identity of particular segments, etc., was selected.
(3) In atypical location of the vermiform process, the clinical manifestations of acute appendicitis differ from those in its common location: abdominal pain is most frequently (47.8% of cases) localized outside the inguinal region, less often, tensity of the anterior abdominal wall muscles, symptoms of peritoneal irritation are noted.
(4) In the final experiment, when vowel tensity and final consonant effects were combined, it was found that the proportion of vowel duration change that carried over to the preceding VOT is different for the two phonetic changes.
(5) General evaluation of workloads showed that working with cross-cut and sloping saws was physiologically most unfavourable, whereas working on a horizontal band grinding machine was characterized by a significant physical overload and labour tensity.
(6) The tensity of the skin over a supratentorial craniectomy was measured with a durometer placed on the skin flap.
(7) The growth temperature, aeration and presence of certain amino acids, but not D-mannose, in the culture medium had some effect on the agglutination in tensity; pH 6-8 was optimal for it and only at pH 3.0-3.2 no agglutination was observed.
(8) Tensity values were obtained on 124 occasions in 28 patients in whom lumbar or intracranial pressure was being recorded simultaneously.
(9) The skin tensity and lumbar or intracranial pressure were then correlated and the correlation studied statistically.
(10) As a whole morpho-functional changes in lymph nodes in fever reaction indicate the increase of their functional activity: hyperplasia of lymphatic substance with the growth of lymphocytes number and slightly differentiated lymphoid cells in follicles and paracortical zone, hyperplasia of pulposus bands, the signs of macrophagal reaction and plasmatization of lymph nodes are to be observed and all these create prerequisites for the increase of tensity of cellular and humoral immunity.
Tenuity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
(n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.