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tetanus (iou)



tetanus noun. LME.
[Latin from Greek tetanos muscular spasm, from teinein stretch.]
Medicine. An acute infectious disease characterized by tonic rigidity and violent spasms of some or all of the voluntary muscles, caused by infection with the bacterium Clostridium tetani, usu. by contamination of a wound; lockjaw. LME.
Physiology. Tonic muscular contraction. L19.
Comb.: tetanus toxin a toxin produced by the tetanus bacillus; spec. tetanospasmin.