tonicity
IPA: tʌnˈɪsɪti
noun
- (medicine) The normal presence of tone or tension in a muscle or organ; tonus
- (sciences) The ability of nonpenetrable solutes in a solution to exert an osmotic pressure upon a membrane
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Examples of "tonicity" in Sentences
- I also observed, carefully, her tension, the tonicity of her body.
- I also observed, carefully, her tension, the tonicity of her body. âStraighten your body, â I said.
- Evaluations from consumers selected to try the product included improvement in skin firmness, tonicity and hydration level.
- He's the man who correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically.
- He's the man that correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically.
- But the muscles follow immediately in their development and rapidly gain volume and tonicity, filling out the arms, legs, back and shoulders with large masses of firm muscular tissue.
- Cases of too frequent nocturnal emissions accompanied by languor and headache are usually caused by irritability or lack of tonicity of the sexual apparatus, particularly of the seminal vesicles and the ducts.
- According to the invite, socials will arrive for a cocktail hour to sample Talika's Bust Serum, which "after six weeks, increases the bra cup size by one cup, provides an 18% lift and, in many cases, improves tonicity."
- Whenever the rockets fall-those which are audible-he smiles, turns out to pace the ward, tears about to splash from the corners of his merry eyes, caught up in a ruddy high tonicity that can't help cheering his fellow patients.
- And, as a matter of fact, the proper maturation of a wine is impossible without a due amount of tartar; besides this, it develops in the wine a well-defined vigour and tonicity, which improves its taste, while it also increases its alimentary qualities.
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