How To Use Opisthotonos In A Sentence
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According to the muscles involved, it is styled trismus, emprosthotonos, opisthotonos and pleuristhotonos.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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The four adult members of the family were conscious but had muscle stiffness with periodic convulsive movements of the limbs and opisthotonos.
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Oculogyric crisis, blepharospasm, respiratory stridor with cyanosis, torticollis, and opisthotonos can occur, as well as slow, writhing movements of the extremities.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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The chief personage in it was a lady reclining at full length on a long couch, and being dragged along, looking the picture of misery, emaciated to the last degree, her head drawn back almost in a state of opisthotonos, her hands and arms clenched and contracted, her eyes fixed and staring at the sky.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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Then, I presume it is not true, Coictier went on with rising hear, that gout is an internal eruption; that a shotwound may be healed by the outward application of a roasted mouse; that young blood, injected in suitable quantities, will restore youth to aged veins; it is not true that two and two make four, and that emprosthotonos follows upon opisthotonos?
I. The Abbot of St.-Martin’s. Book V
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_ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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The past was a dim montage of life at the agency and the treatment center and the ranch, a recollection of lying on the river bank with women in attitudes of opisthotonos or of lying against the boulders with a rifle.
This Crowded Earth
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Twenty four hours later she developed the signs and symptoms of tetanus, with increasing jaw stiffness, opisthotonos, and generalised limb spasticity.
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The four adult members of the family were conscious but had muscle stiffness with periodic convulsive movements of the limbs and opisthotonos.
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Last of all, when the other channels for the escape of the surplus nerve-force have been filled to overflowing, a yet further and less-used group of muscles is spasmodically affected: the head is thrown back and the spine bent inwards -- there is a slight degree of what medical men call opisthotonos.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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At one moment the patient was extended at full length with her body arched forward in a state of opisthotonos.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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That's called opisthotonos -- typical of this condition.
Every living thing
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Tactile and auditory stimuli provoke convulsions with opisthotonos.
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He was motionless, his legs extended stiffly, his back arched in a dreadful opisthotonos, his eyes staring.
Every living thing
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These include numbness and weakness of the lower extremities, opisthotonos and seizures.