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/tɛtˈænɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or causing tetanus
- of or relating to or causing tetany
How To Use tetanic In A Sentence
- - Adsorbed tetanic toxoid, monovalent, vial with ready to use solution. Chapter 4
- Tetanus infection can cause production of a neurotoxin, leading to tetanic muscle contractions.
- ** paramorphine, an opiate alkaloid (opioid license here, because instead of depressing the central nervous system, it resembles strychnine in its action, causing tetanic convulsions). Latest amIright Song Parodies
- - Anti-tetanic serum only has a transitory action and must be combined with anti-tetanic vaccination. Chapter 4
- _ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- It is worthy of trial in tetanic and eclamptic seizures, and in tonic angiospasms such as occur during the chill of malarial fevers, although in the last-mentioned condition pilocarpine is perhaps more suitable, provided the energy of the heart be unimpaired. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
- Figs. 11 and 12 compare the time courses of changes of intensities and spacings of representative reflections with that of tension in a single tetanic contraction-relaxation cycle.
- - Adsorbed vaccine (diphtheric and tetanic toxoid and killed bacterial vaccine against pertussis), ampoule with ready to use solution. Chapter 4
- Yet, previously only an insignificant change in intensity distribution was found in some studies on frog muscle between relaxation and tetanic contraction and during contraction at low versus high temperature.
- Paitoon, a mango farmer, was admitted to Manorom Christian Hospital with tetanic convulsions.