tonicity

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The muscles scarcely keep pace with the bones in their growth, and tend to be flabby and to lack usual tonicity.

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But if stimulation of the brain does not paralyze, it must increase the tonicity of the vaso-motor centre, and hence the force and regularity of the circulation.

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To this normal state of oppositional contraction the name "muscular tonicity" is given.

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When the brain is weary, when it begins to lose its elasticity and freshness, there will be the same lack of tonicity and strength in the brain product.

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The followers of this school forget that there can be no tonicity without tension.

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