Organ or Tissue Function
muscle tonus
mus·cle to·nus
Subclass of:
Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena
Definitions related to muscle tonus:
  • (muscle tone) Resistance to passive elongation or stretch.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The state of activity or tension of a muscle beyond that related to its physical properties, that is, its active resistance to stretch. In skeletal muscle, tonus is dependent upon efferent innervation. (Stedman, 25th ed)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (muscle tension) Condition of moderate contraction produced by stretching a muscle.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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