Crossword-Solution: ATONY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Atony | n. | Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ATONY | anagram | AYONT, AYTON, TAONY, TOANY, TONYA |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ATONY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lack of phonetic stress. | 1 answer |
| tone lacking | 1 answer |
| lack of normal tone or tension, as in muscles | 1 answer |
| flaccidity | 1 answer |
| WANT of tone | 1 answer |
| Physiological weakness | 1 answer |
| Muscular weakness(5) | 1 answer |
| Muscle weakness | 1 answer |
| Lack-of-muscle condition | 1 answer |
| Lack of texture, as a muscle | 1 answer |
| Lack of resiliency, in medicine. | 1 answer |
| Lack of muscle power | 1 answer |
| Lack of muscle firmness | 1 answer |
| Abnormal muscular relaxation. | 1 answer |
| Lack of muscle tone | 2 answers |
| Muscular weakness | 2 answers |
| Lack of vital energy | 2 answers |
| Lack of vigor | 2 answers |
| lacking tone | 2 answers |
| Flabbiness | 3 answers |
| lack of accent | 3 answers |
| Lack of energy | 6 answers |
| Debility | 57 answers |
| Weakness | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
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Sentences with ATONY (5)
Unfortunately the great majority of clinicians could not get away from the theoretical conceptions of disease, and Cullen's theory of spasm and atony exercised a profound influence on practice, particularly in this country, where it had the warm advocacy of Benjamin Rush.
The cause of Kant's death was clearly the general decay of the vital powers, and in particular the atony of the digestive organs, which must soon have destroyed him under any care or abstinence whatever.
They advertised his articles in mysterious terms which roused curiosity: and his first effort was in fact like a stone falling into a duck-pond in the atony of the little town.
Excessive and, more rarely, defective secretion of hydrochloric acid by the stomach cells, cramps, general atony or debility, of the stomach, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation, tympanites (excessive production of gases), may all arise from nervous causes.
This disease may proceed from either a _negative_ condition--a state of _atony_ from lack of nutrition, or a _partial paralysis_ of the bowels--or from a _positive_ condition--a state of _relaxation_ and consequent weakness of the muscular tissues of the bowels.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1946–2018).