Atony is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 47 anagrams from letters in atony (anoty).
1685-95; Late Latin atonia Greek, derivative of átonos unaccented, languid, literally, toneless. See a-6, tone
The patient is unable to empty the bladder, and the condition of atony gets increasingly worse.
atony and hyperactivity may be overcome by appropriate educational remedies which we will now discuss.
The muscle of the bowel is in a state of fatty degeneration, and atony and dilatation of the gut follow.
atony of the muscular walls of the stomach may be a part of general muscular weakness and impaired nutrition.
His nerve-principle was supposed to produce spasms and atony, either actively or passively.
The last writer especially distinguishes clearly between dilatation due to stenosis and that due to atony.
atony, at′on-i, n. want of tone or energy: debility: relaxation.
As for myself, I have not got rid of my atony—for such is my illness.
atony of the muscularis of the intestine is admittedly the direct cause, in most instances, of constipation.
atony: the child does not move; he cannot stand; he cannot sit upright nor execute any movement whatever.