Norwegian Meaning of tetanus

Stivkrampe

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Definitions and Meaning of tetanus in English

Wordnet

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

Webster

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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Stivkrampe

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 => Tetanusmotor, tetanoid => tetanoide, tetanize => tetanus, tetanization => tetanisering, tetanin => Tetanin,