hypertonusn.

1891 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. III. 1944/1 Hypertonus, that condition of the eye in which the intra-ocular tension is increased, sometimes without any organic disease being present.

1918 R. H. Elliot Glaucoma v. 300 It would appear, then, that the thrombotic type of glaucoma possesses a very distinct inflammatory element; it thus comes into line with the hypertonus which we find secondary..to intra-ocular tumours.

1904 Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry II. 775 The arms showed the typical muscular rigidity (hypertonus) of paralysis agitans, while the legs were markedly hypotonic.

1908 Practitioner Mar. 295 A condition of hypertonus of the vascular system.

1923 J. F. H. Dally High Blood Pressure v. 65 To some extent raised blood pressure may be differentiated from arterial hypertonus by instrumental methods.

1924 Brain 47 333 General hypertonus may, however, be inferred from a slight increase of the tendon reflexes.

1950 Physiol. Rev. XXX. 466 After the somnolence and plastic hypertonus had passed, marked poverty of movement still persisted.

1971 P. J. Rasch & R. K. Burke Kinesiol. (ed. 4) iv. 83 The limb is then said to be spastic. In man such hypertonus occurs only in the antigravity muscles.