Sentence examples for tonus from inspiring English sources

They contain a number of sensory endings the primary functions of which are to regulate muscle tonus (a state of partial muscular contraction) and to determine the position and movements of the head and body.

In the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica, Bodegård described the typical patient as "totally passive, immobile, lacks tonus, withdrawn, mute, unable to eat and drink, incontinent and not reacting to physical stimuli or pain".

There are no mere ragamuffins in Dillard, only a "tatterdemalion"; the tone of a man's calf muscle is, here, the "tonus".

WHITE PLAINS -- St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 82 Prospect St. Today, 10 30 a.m.: "Missa Orbis Factor" plainsong, "Tonus Peregrinus" by David Hurd, Gabriell's Oboe" by Ennio Morricone, "Prayer to Jesus" by John Ness Beck.