tonicity
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His sexual organs had completely regained their tonicity and without doubt, their virility.
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But if stimulation of the brain does not paralyze, it must increase the tonicity of the vaso-motor centre, and hence the force and regularity of the circulation.
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To this normal state of oppositional contraction the name "muscular tonicity" is given.
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When the brain is weary, when it begins to lose its elasticity and freshness, there will be the same lack of tonicity and strength in the brain product.
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The followers of this school forget that there can be no tonicity without tension.
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