This tonus is influenced by the stimulation of the vestibular apparatus in the regular manner already indicated. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation] Reference
In the frog's tongue, capillary tonus is very strongly developed, in that by far the majority are completely contracted. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
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 tonus. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
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 motions produce either a spasm or atony. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
A centre for the tonus which is directed against the sagittal axis of the body, i.e. «inwards» and also a centre for the tonus away from this axis, i.e. «outwards». From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation] Reference
All I can do is to inhibit the tonus centre for the right arm to the right completely and thus obtain correct pointing. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Au bout de 5 ou dix minutes d'attente interminable, je recupere un peu de tonus musculaire mais je suis affreusement crevé. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
It can very easily be shown that blood flow is a condition for the maintenance of tonus, but that dependence on the blood is very varied. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I describe as the capillaries 'tonus the fact that they have the power of contracting to a greater or lesser extent, and of maintaining themselves contracted. From Wordnik.com. [August Krogh - Nobel Lecture] Reference
In Bárány's pointing test the cortex of the cerebrum represents the active force - the horse - while the cerebellar cortex supplies the tonus; one must assume that it has. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation] Reference
If I produce a nystagmus to the right, i.e. if I attempt to stimulate the tonus centre for the right arm to the left, I am unsuccessful, for this centre is diseased and is not functioning. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture] Reference
In normal people, as long as there is no stimulation of the semi-circular canals, these four centers provide a certain tension, called tonus, for the muscles during movement of the extremities. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Bárány - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Dans sa forme la plus typique il y a également des accès de chute brutale du tonus musculaire (on parle de cataplexie) déclenchée par les émotions: fou rire, surprise, colère, excitation . From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
When the arm is directed into the horizontal plane one must assume that, as regards tonus, it is being influenced by one centre for tonus in an upward direction and one for tonus in a downward direction. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation] Reference
Fat tissue contains vitamins A, D, К and Е, responsible for tonus. From Wordnik.com. [Pravda.Ru] Reference
Top model Elle Macpherson says she maintained her tonus all this time by doing yoga, swimming or jogging. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
And, of course, one should feel something if it is no more than the tonus of muscle against the mobile bones. From Wordnik.com. [Instinct] Reference
I endured my 44h of flying exceptionally well, if I take into account the general tonus of other people on those planes. From Wordnik.com. [eDragonu - the choice of a personal path] Reference
In this situation, the animal could engage in SWS but not PS, because of the loss of muscle tonus occurring at PS onset. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
In considering the foregoing table it is to be remembered that in life muscle tonus varies the lumen and on the whole renders it smaller. From Wordnik.com. [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference
The pyramidal tract conveys impulses that inhibit muscle tonus, while the rubro-spinal tract is the path by which excitatory impulses travel. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The pyramidal and rubro-spinal tracts, in addition to conveying motor impulses, convey impulses that influence muscle tonus and the deep reflexes. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Heidi Klum does fitness and aerobic exercises and after that he caresses herself with proteins cocktails which help her maintain a sensational tonus. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
As Angell says (loc. cit.): "Fear and joy may both cause cardiac palpitation, but in one case we find high tonus of the skeletal muscles, in the other case relaxation and the general sense of weakness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
A constant, and under normal circumstances, uniform state of tension (tonus). From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 - Presentation] Reference
«tonus» (steady contraction), whose relaxation is brought about periodically, and through the action of certain stimuli. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1920 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Aiit) jmcoiouiviieumDeus, aut tislime Pacer, & tonus Ecclelia: prccibiiK. From Wordnik.com. [M. Antoni Mureti ... Orationes, epistolæ hymniqve saeri] Reference
Lat: tonus, & Gr: tonos. From Wordnik.com. [Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English dictionary. Whereof the Irish part hath been compiled not only from various Irish vocabularies, particularly that of Mr. Edward Lhuyd; but also from a great variety of the best Irish manuscripts now extant ..] Reference
Lingua, tropus, ratio, numerus, tonus, angulus, astra. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
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