tenuation

plural tenuations

1. rareSynonym of attenuation.

   It may yet be said of the next ten years that this was the decade that witnessed at least the beginning of the tenuation of provincial dominance.

   1973, Canadian Tax Foundation, Report of Proceedings of the Tax Conference, page 625

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   In examining in the dead subject mixed cases of these descriptions, it is necessary to connterpoise the opposite conditions, to balance the hypertrophy against the tenuation, and the dilatation against the contraction, in order to determine which is the predominant affection.

   1842, James Hope, Caspar Wistar Pennock, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels

   Mr. Peskett explains that this is partly because in plants there is found the inspiration for the perforation and the contrasts and variety of form from the apple-like roundness to the tenuation of stems and tendrils.

   1947, Wood - Volume 12, page 42

   And were you aware before today that the impression of that was a normal contrast CT scan of the head, and in the text of the report quote “No abnormal areas of the tenuation or mass lesions are identified” closed quote.

   2016, Marshall Houts, Art of Advocacy Series: Cross Examination of Medical Experts, →ISBN

   Synonyms: attenuation