See Also: tetanin(medicine)

Yunca (iou) and tetanin (medicine)


Yunca (iou)



Yunca noun & adjective. M19.
[Amer. Spanish, from Quechua yunca plain, valley.]
A. noun. Pl. same, -s. = MOCHICA noun. M19.
b. adjective. = MOCHICA adjective. M20.

tetanin (medicine)


tetanin
<physiology> A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.

Source: Websters Dictionary