flaccidity
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Evaluating the parlous flaccidity of our schools, James Traub thinks we’re in big trouble—but he also finds reason for hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The lack of muscle tone, known as hypotonicity or flaccidity, may indicate that the LMN is not conducting action potentials that will keep a basal level of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
In "Jennie Gerhardt" there is no such flaccidity of structure, no such vacillation in aim, no such proliferation of episode.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The hasty swallowing of unmasticated food, too large a bolus, defective or artificial teeth, flaccidity of tissues, and spasm of the cricopharyngeus muscle, are etiologic factors.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
In the weak there is languor, faintness, flaccidity of the breasts, general depression, and pains in the back and loins.
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
