AT ON IF I CATION

(Fr. A$-to-ni?-fi?-ka*-si?-o'n?, The Qn production of atony. [L, 41.] ATONUS (Lat.), adj. A*t(a®t)’o(0?)-nu3s(nu‘s). See ATontc. ATONY, n.?. Gr., ârovia. Lat., atonia (q. v. for deriv.). Fr., atonie. Ger., Atonie, Erschlaffung, Schlaffheit. It., atonia, Sp., atonia, Weakne , relaxation, lack of tone or of normal contractile power (said of muscles and of hollow muscular organs). [D, 35; L, 32.)—A. of the uterus. Lat., atonia (seu adynamia) uteri, Fr., atonie de l’utérus. According to Wigand, the second degree of diminished uterine action in parturition, the contractions being weak and imperfect, besides being too infre n O, no; 0%, not; O*, whole; Th. thin; Th*, the; U, like oo in too; U%, blue; U*, lull; U*, full; U*, urn; Us, like ü (German). quent. [A, 20.] See also Uterine INERTIA and PARALYSIS of the | established by Reichenbach, including Atractylis and some other uterus.—Nutritive atony. Fr., atonie nutritive. Dupuytren’s | genera, [B, 170.] term for atrophy. [A, 301.] ATRACTYLIGENIN, n. A?t-ra?k-ti2l-i2j/e2n-i?n, Fr., atractyl- ‘ ATOPOS, ATOPUS (Lat.), adj's. (puts). strange, paradoxical (said oi