Usage examples (29)

• This tonus is influenced by the stimulation of the vestibular apparatus in the regular manner already indicated.
• In the frog's tongue, capillary tonus is very strongly developed, in that by far the majority are completely contracted.
• If one performs the same experiment with the tongue, many hours must elapse before a similar reaction occurs, and even the slightest blood supply is adequate to maintain...
• William Cullen (1712-90) accepting irritability as his starting-point, supposes a "tonus" or fluid inherent in the nerves (Newton's ether), whose stronger or weaker...