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from The Century Dictionary.
- Arresting or retarding plant movement or growth: a term proposed by Sachs, in 1865, to characterize the variations in intensity of light which produce the movements of waking and sleeping (nyctitropism) in plants, in contradistinction to heliotropism.
- Due to the influence of an external stimulus, such as light, gravity, or humidity: thus used by Strassburger in the phrase paratonic movements, opposed by him to autonomic movements.
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- adjective medicine Of or relating to
paratonia .
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