tenuation

English

Noun

tenuation (plural tenuations)

1. (rare) Synonym of attenuation
   • 1842, James Hope, Caspar Wistar Pennock, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels:

     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.

   • 1947, Wood - Volume 12, page 42:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.