Usually means: Loss of muscle tone, strength.
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  1. atony: Merriam-Webster
  2. atony: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. atony: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. atony: Collins English Dictionary
  5. atony: Vocabulary.com
  6. atony: Wordnik
  7. atony: Wiktionary
  8. atony: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. atony: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. atony: Dictionary.com
  11. Atony: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Atony: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. atony: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. atony: Rhymezone
  15. Atony: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. atony: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. atony: FreeDictionary.org
  18. atony: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. atony: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. atony: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. atony: Merriam-Webster

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  1. atony: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. atony: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. atony: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (atony)

▸ noun:  Lack of muscle tone; flaccidity or atonia

Similar:
atonia, amyotonia, atonicity, attonity, atonic, deadness, musclelessness, inertness, flat affect, asynergy, more...

Opposite:
tonicity, contraction, strength, vigor, vitality

Phrases:
gastric atony, intestinal atony, ruminal atony, colonic atony, more...

Adjectives:
uterine, gastric, intestinal, muscular, bladder, simple, general, complete, gastrointestinal, vesical, postoperative

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Similar:
atonia, amyotonia, atonicity, attonity, atonic, deadness, musclelessness, inertness, flat affect, asynergy, more...

Opposite:
tonicity, contraction, strength, vigor, vitality

Phrases:
gastric atony, intestinal atony, ruminal atony, colonic atony, more...

Adjectives:
uterine, gastric, intestinal, muscular, bladder, simple, general, complete, gastrointestinal, vesical, postoperative



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