TETANUS
\tˈɛtənəs], \tˈɛtənəs], \t_ˈɛ_t_ə_n_ə_s]\
Definitions of TETANUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
By Oddity Software
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A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
By Noah Webster.
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A disease caused by tetanospasmin, a powerful protein toxin produced by CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI. Tetanus usually occurs after an acute injury, such as a puncture wound or laceration. Generalized tetanus, the most common form, is characterized by tetanic muscular contractions and hyperreflexia. Localized tetanus presents itself as a mild condition with manifestations restricted to muscles near the wound. It may progress to the generalized form.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An infectious disease marked by painful tonic muscular contractions; it is caused by the toxin (tetanospasmin) of Bacillus tetani acting upon the central nervous system; see emprosthotonas, opisthotonas, and pleurothotanas. 2. A tonic muscular contraction, especially one induced by an electrical current.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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A disease characterised by long-continued contraction or spasm of certain muscles, the muscles of the jaws and throat being first affected; lock-jaw.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A disease characterised by violent and continued contraction or spasms of the muscles, resulting in rigidity and incurvations of various parts; the disease called lockjaw.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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State of a muscle undergoing a continuous fused series of contractions due to faradization ; a rigid state of plant tissue caused by continued stimulus.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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An acute disease in which there is a state of persistent tonic spasm of voluntary muscle.
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Continuous ionic spasm of a muscle; steady contraction of a muscle without distinct twitching.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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