Australian English Meaning of tetanus
Tetanus
Other Australian English words related to Tetanus
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Nearest Words of tetanus
- tetanus antitoxin => Tetanus antitoxin
- tetanus immune globulin => tetanus immune globulin
- tetanus immunoglobulin => Tetanus immunoglobulin
- tetany => Tetanus
- tetard => tadpole
- tetartanopia => Tetartanopia
- tetartohedral => tetartohedral
- tetartohedrism => tetartohedrism
- tetaug => tetaug
- tetchily => tetchily
Definitions and Meaning of tetanus in English
tetanus (n)
an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages
a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses
tetanus (n.)
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.
That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
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Tetanus
an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur dur
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tetanomotor => Tetanus motor, tetanoid => tetanoid, tetanize => tetanise, tetanization => tetanisation, tetanin => Tetanin,
