tetanus

From Latin tetanus, from Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/, /ˈtɛt.nəs/
• Rhymes: (General American) -ɛtnəs

tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetanuses or tetani)

1. (pathology, countable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.

   Synonym: lockjaw

2. (physiology, countable) A state of muscle tension caused by sustained contraction arising from a rapid series of nerve impulses which do not allow the muscle to relax.
   • 1998 January 16, Pierre-Marie Lledo et al., “Postsynaptic Membrane Fusion and Long-Term Potentiation”, in Science‎, volume 279, number 5349, →DOI, pages 399–403:

     We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway […]

• tetanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• attunes, nutates, Tenutas, tautens, unstate, untaste

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• tetan

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: te‧ta‧nus

tetanus m inan

1. tetanus (pathology)

• “tetanus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tetanus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin tetanus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtetɑnus/,
• Rhymes: -etɑnus
• Hyphenation^(key): te‧ta‧nus

tetanus

1. (pathology) tetanus

• jäykkäkouristus

• “tetanus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• astunet, sattuen

From Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos); New Latin usage specific to the bacteria-caused disease.

tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension

1. A stiffness or spasm of the neck; tetanus
2. (New Latin) The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.

Second-declension noun.

• “tetanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tetanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tetanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

tetanus c

1. (pathology) tetanus

   Synonym: (more common) stelkramp

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