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tetanus
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tetanus , also known as lockjaw , is an infection characterized by muscle spasms . In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body. These spasms usually last a few minutes each time and occur frequently for ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infectious disease, late 14c., from Latin tetanus "tetanus," from Greek tetanos "tetanus, muscular spasm," literally "a stretching, tension," from teinein "to stretch" (see tenet ); "so called because the disease is characterized by violent spasms and stiffness ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few infections arise from inanimate sources: for example, pathogens that cause tetanus are harboured in the soil. ▪ His advice should also be sought for all puncture wounds and lacerations regarding any measures needed to avoid ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: lockjaw ] a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid ...
Usage examples of tetanus.
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.