TETANY
\tˈɛtəni], \tˈɛtəni], \t_ˈɛ_t_ə_n_i]\
Definitions of TETANY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
By Princeton University
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clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
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A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
By Oddity Software
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A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
By Noah Webster.
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A disorder characterized by muscle twitches, cramps, and carpopedal spasm, and when severe, laryngospasm and seizures. This condition is associated with unstable depolarization of axonal membranes, primarily in the peripheral nervous system. Tetany usually results from HYPOCALCEMIA or reduced serum levels of MAGNESIUM that may be associated with HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOPARATHYROIDISM; RICKETS; UREMIA; or other conditions. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1490)
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A disease in which there is a paroxysmal or continuous symmetrical, tonic spasm of the muscles, especially, of the extremities, producing bilateral pain and contracture. It occurs after diarrhoea, exposure to cold, nursing, excision of the thyroid gland, and rickets. Gastric t., a severe, very often fatal variety, due to dilatation or other disease of the stomach, and marked by painful tonic spasm of the extremities and sometimes of the head and trunk, and embarrassment of respiration. The intermittent form may last for many weeks. The ordinary form of t. usually ends in recovery. Treatment: removal of cause; potassium bromide, chloral, and cannabis indica; tonics.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: tetanoid convulsions. A nervous affection, especially of children and young persons, characterized by attacks of intermittent tonic spasms of certain groups of muscles, generally of the upper extremities. It is suggested that the disease is connected with pathological changes in the parathyroid glands.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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