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tetanus
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n. 1 (context pathology countable English) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium (taxlink Clostridium tetani species noshow=1), found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals. 2 (context ...
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Infantile mortality--due chiefly to beriberi, which meant malnutrition, and to tetanus, which meant dirty handling at birth, reached 773.
There was nothing you could do to ameliorate it but let the strong muscles of the arms and legs and back bear it as best they could, with the automatic tetanus of the Seyle GA reaction, and concentrate on keeping your head and your abdomen in exact neutral with the acceleration thrust.
Ten lit res of plasmalyte B, a blood-giving set and syringes, morphine and intravenous penicillin, tetanus toxoid all the equipment needed to treat massive physical trauma.
Then he gathered up all the emergency wound packs he could find, along with plaster-of-Paris material for making splints, emergency surgery kits for small wounds and lacerations, an abdominal-surgery kit, six vials of tetanus toxoid as a booster for macerating puncture wounds.
While both men were at the hospital for serum tetanus shots and hook removal, he had gone in search of a big supply of barbless hooks.
Turner says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev.
The patient was started on two grams of cephalothin antibiotic intravenously, and was given more tetanus toxoid.
She was the kind of nurse who assured you your tetanus shot would feel like a little bee bite when in truth it'd raise a knot on your arm the size of a doorknob.
Do we have any plasma in stock from someone we know had a tetanus booster shot?
Tuberculosis Clinics, Venereal Disease Clinics, and Free Shot Clinics (yellow fever, polio, tetanus, etc.
Even up-time, when someone wasn't immunized, tetanus was a very dangerous disease.
And, like tetanus, the original form is only dangerous if ingested or if it infiltrates an open wound.
Any camp here, no matter how good the location chosen, no matter how good the weather, has inevitably become nothing less than a pesthole within less than two weeks' time, breeding farms of dysentery, cholera, typhus, typhoid, tetanus, lung infections, poxes, internal parasites, noxious insects, and God alone knows what else.
My three-year-old tetanus shot seemed to satisfy her, but my stomach was in knots when she finally decided I had been tortured enough and slipped a stretchy white pressure bandage over it.
Avi, by contrast, stiffens up like a man who stepped on a rusty nail a week ago and has just felt the first stirrings of the tetanus infection that will eventually break his spine.