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flaccidity

[fla-sid-i-tee, flak-] / flæˈsɪd ɪ ti, flæk- /












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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

When continually resorted to by persons well nourished, but inactive, it is apt to produce a flaccidity of the system, and to encourage that relaxation of the veins which predisposes to excessive formation of fat.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

As I read over again, with a fresh mind, the last chapter, I am struck by the opposition of states which seem best to fit a weed for a weed's work,—stubbornness, namely, and flaccidity.

From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Esophagoscopic findings are those of absence of the normal resistance at the cricopharyngeus, flaccidity and lack of sensation of the esophageal walls, and perhaps adherence of particles of food to the folds.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier




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