Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of equal tension.
- adj. Isosmotic.
- adj. Having the same concentration of solutes as the blood: an isotonic saline solution.
- adj. Physiology Of or involving muscular contraction in which the muscle remains under relatively constant tension while its length changes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having or indicating equal tones.
- In physical chemistry, possessing or producing equal osmotic pressures; especially, having salts dissolved in such proportion as to occasion no change of volume in red blood-corpuscles put in contact with the solution. Solutions having less concentration are called
hypotonic ; those having greater concentration, hypertonic.Poynting and. Thomson, Properties of Matter, p. 190. - Relating to isotonia.
Wiktionary
- adj. of two solutions having the same osmotic pressure
- adj. of a medical solution Having the same concentration of solutes as human blood.
- adj. of two muscles having equal tension
- adj. physiology Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle changes. Antonym is isometric. Isotonic movements are either concentric (working muscle shortens) or eccentric (working muscle lengthens). See also Wikipedia:Isotonic (exercise physiology)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension.
- adj. (Physiology, Biochemistry) Having an osmotic pressure (tonicity) equal to that of a reference solution; -- of aqueous solutions. Contrasting with
hypotonic andhypertonic . See hypertonic.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes
- adj. of two or more muscles; having equal tension
- adj. relating to or characterized by the equal intervals of a musical scale
- adj. (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure
Etymologies
- iso- + tonic (Wiktionary)
- iso- + Greek tonos, tension; see tone + -ic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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