paratonic
adjEtymology From para- + tonic. In specific use in the medical sense, after French paratonique. In the botanical sense, after German paratonisch.
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Medicine, Sciences Relating to paratonia.
- A primary symptom in Parkinsonism, but also manifest at higher levels, as gegenhalten (paratonic rigidity), catatonic rigidity, hysterical rigidity, and neurotic rigidities and obstinacies.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Relating to paratones.