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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
clonic is an adjective meaning "of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation". It carries one recorded sense.
of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation
“clonic spasm”
medicine
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for clonic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.