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What does hypotonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a solution) Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
  2. (medicine) Showing less than normal tension in the muscles or muscle tissue.
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The infant with botulism becomes progressively weak, hypotonic and hyporeflexic, showing bulbar and spinal nerve abnormalities.
Cerebral palsy takes the form of a hypotonic tetraplegia when the child has a mobility problem but with floppy muscles.
On arrival, at 3 hours of age, he was hypotonic with tonic seizures of the upper extremities and bilaterally fixed, dilated pupils.
A bipolar field has a hypertonic pole or centre of concentration, and a hypotonic pole or centre of dilution.
During the acute phase of bilirubin encephalopathy, these infants are noted to be lethargic and hypotonic, with a poor sucking reflex.
Loss of equine hypertonic sweat is conducive to hypotonic plasma, and this hypotonicity inhibits voluntary water intake.

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