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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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During the acute phase of bilirubin encephalopathy, these infants are noted to be lethargic and hypotonic, with a poor sucking reflex.
Less commonly, cerebral palsy takes the form of a hypotonic tetraplegia, with no spasticity, when the child has a mobility problem but with floppy muscles.
With this knowledge, the effects of hypotonicity were assessed by comparing the responses of an isotonic to a hypotonic solution.
Cerebral palsy takes the form of a hypotonic tetraplegia when the child has a mobility problem but with floppy muscles.
Thus, the photodamaged lysosomes and the normal ones will suffer the same level of osmotic stress in the same hypotonic sucrose medium.
A bipolar field has a hypertonic pole or centre of concentration, and a hypotonic pole or centre of dilution.

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