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What is the adjective for hypotonicity?

What's the adjective for hypotonicity? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb hypotonize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hypotonic
  1. (of a solution) Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
  2. (medicine) Showing less than normal tension in the muscles or muscle tissue.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, the photodamaged lysosomes and the normal ones will suffer the same level of osmotic stress in the same hypotonic sucrose medium.”
      “Cerebral palsy takes the form of a hypotonic tetraplegia when the child has a mobility problem but with floppy muscles.”
      “The infant with botulism becomes progressively weak, hypotonic and hyporeflexic, showing bulbar and spinal nerve abnormalities.”
hypotonized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of hypotonize
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