Usually means: Equal tension; constant osmotic pressure.
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  1. isotonic: Merriam-Webster
  2. isotonic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. isotonic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. isotonic: Vocabulary.com
  5. isotonic: Wordnik
  6. isotonic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. isotonic: Wiktionary
  8. isotonic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. isotonic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. isotonic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. isotonic: Dictionary.com
  12. Isotonic (exercise physiology), Isotonic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Isotonic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. isotonic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. isotonic: Rhymezone
  16. Isotonic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. isotonic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. isotonic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. isotonic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. isotonic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Isotonic: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. isotonic: Legal dictionary
  2. isotonic: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. isotonic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. isotonic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. isotonic: Medical dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Isotonic: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. isotonic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. Isotonic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Isotonic: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of two solutions) Having the same osmotic pressure.
adjective:  (of a medical solution) Having the same concentration of solutes as human blood.
adjective:  (of two muscles) Having equal tension.
adjective:  (physiology) Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle changes. Antonym is isometric. Isotonic movements are either concentric (working muscle shortens) or eccentric (working muscle lengthens). See also Wikipedia:Isotonic (exercise physiology)
adjective:  (music) Having the same tone.

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