tonic

a tonic convulsion or spasm.

A gin and tonic, please.

phasic and tonic stretch reflexes.

It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.

you need a tonic—and here's just the thing.

This tonic will work miracles for your depression.

The salesman proclaimed that his tonic would cure all diseases.

public art is a tonic that can enthuse alienated youth.

Marion laced into the gin and tonic as if it was going out of fashion.

being needed is a tonic for someone at my age.

she took a tonic, and said that was why she was as tough as old boots.

The chemist analyzed the new tonic and found it contained poison.

She ordered a large vodka and tonic from a passing waiter.

The compound was tested for its antiseizure effect in mice with pentetrazole-induced clonic and tonic convulsion.

Forest frog series tonics with the effect of building up health and antiager find favor in the consumer’s eyes.

a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood an bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma.

The plagal cadence, sometimes known as the Amen cadence from ecclesiastical use, is the progression from the chord of the subdominant to the tonic, IV - I.

The episode began with two attacks of generalized tonic-clonic seizures, fever and consciousness disturbance, followed by urinary incontinence and paraplegia with hyporeflexia.