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for atony
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Atony \At"o*ny\, n. [Gr. ? slackness; 'a priv. + ? tone,
strength, ? to stretch: cf. F. atonie.] (Med.)
Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ,
especially of such as are contractile.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
atony
n 1: lack of normal muscular tension or tonus [syn: atonicity,
atony, atonia, amyotonia] [ant: tone, tonicity,
tonus]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "atony":
adynamia, anemia, blah feeling, bloodlessness, cachexia, cachexy,
cowardice, debilitation, debility, dullness, etiolation, faintness,
fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, impotence,
languishment, languor, lassitude, listlessness, prostration,
sluggishness, softness, strengthlessness, weakliness, weakness,
weariness
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