Answer
The affix "ton/tono" means tension, stretch, tone, or pressure. It appears in the words tone, and tonal.
Work Step by Step
It also also part of the structure of such words as isotonic, hypertonic, and hypotonic.
Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function, 7th Edition
by Saladin, Kenneth
Published by
McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10:
0073403717
ISBN 13:
978-0-07340-371-7
Chapter 11 - Muscular Tissue - Study Guide - Building Your Medical Vocabulary - Page 434: 9
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