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Meanings of hypotonic in English

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hipotônico

(Of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution.

        hipotônico

        Less than normal tension.

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              Examples for "hypotony"
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              Results: Six of nine eyes recovered visual acuity to within one line of initial level after treatment of the hypotony.
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              No patient developed hypotony.
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              An unsuccessful outcome was one in which the retina was attached with macular pucker or hypotony or was anatomically detached.
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              However, it seems to be safer than manual extracapsular surgery because it minimized the risk of intraoperative eye hypotony or collapse.
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              Methods: A 16-year-old girl presented with vision loss and hypotony of her left eye following a craniofacial procedure, including bilateral medial canthopexy.
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              Usage of hypotonic in English
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              Fecal incontinence due to a manometrically documented hypotonic internal anal sphincter occurred.
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              This quantity cannot completely account for the RVD during the first hypotonic challenge.
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              We depleted peritoneal B cells in mice by hypotonic shock.
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              Water, commercial drinks and hypotonic intravenous fluids should be supplied carefully to patients with crush syndrome.
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              Postirradiation exposure to hypotonic NaCl solutions resulted in fixation of radiation damage in all the cell lines.
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              Normal human granulocytes obtained by Ficoll-Hypaque sedimentation were subjected to mild hypotonic shock and disruption by shear.
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              When C. cucullus was induced to encyst in a hypotonic medium containing NaN3, the expansion of the excystment vacuoles was inhibited.
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              The amounts of glycine, aspartate and glutamate excreted from the cell during the hypotonic treatment were significantly larger than in control conditions.
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              These criteria will aid in recognition of the syndrome in hypotonic infants and in obese, mildly retarded, behaviorally disturbed adolescents and adults.
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              Addition of 15-60 microM GdCl3 in hypotonic Ringer increased light scattering, pointing to cell swelling beyond normal values.
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              The active complex has been recovered neither from cytoplasmic extract obtained by hypotonic disruption nor from Triton X-100 soluble fraction of the cells.
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              The changes in electrical activity observed in hypotonic solution might explain the previously described transient rise in insulin secretion provoked by osmotic cell swelling.
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              Our patient developed a severe dystonic state after a febrile gastrointestinal infection, with a hypotonic state that may have been a dysregulation of brainstem origin.
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              Hypotonic solutions can cause painful sensations in nasal and ocular mucosa through molecular mechanisms that are not entirely understood.
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              Fecal incontinence due to a manometrically documented hypotonic internal anal sphincter occurred.
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              This quantity cannot completely account for the RVD during the first hypotonic challenge.
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              hipotônico
              Hypotonic through the time