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jactitation (iou) and wheat pasture poisoning (medicine)


jactitation (iou)



jactitation noun. M17.
[medieval Latin jactitatio(n-) false declaration tending to someone's detriment, from Latin jactitare bring forward in public, utter, (later) boast, frequentative of jactare: see JACTATION, -ATION. In sense 2 app. an expressive extension of JACTATION 2.]
Public display or declaration, esp. of a boastful Nature; boasting, bragging. Now rare or obsolete exc. in jactitation of Marriage below. M17.
jactitation of Marriage Law false declaration that one is married to a specified person.
Medicine. Orig., = JACTATION 2. Now, convulsive movement of a limb, muscle, or muscle group. M17.

wheat pasture poisoning (medicine)


wheat pasture poisoning -->
grass tetany


A highly fatal disease of cows and sheep occurring generally during the first two weeks in the spring after the animals have been out on lush pastures; it is characterised by convulsions, hypomagnesaemia, and usually hypocalcaemia.

Synonym: wheat pasture poisoning.