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

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. tonus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  5. tonus: Medical dictionary

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  1. tonus: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tonus)

noun:  (biology) tonicity; tone
noun:  A tonal system or mode used in Gregorian chant.

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