atony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: atony	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for atony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
atony n lack of normal muscular tension or tonus [syn: atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia] Antonym(s): tone, tonicity, tonus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Atony \At"o*ny\, n. [Gr. [?] slackness; 'a priv. + [?] tone, strength, [?] to stretch: cf. F. atonie.] (Med.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.