tetanic
[tuh-tan-ik]
- Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by tetanus.
- Medicine/Medical. noting a medicine or poison that can cause tetanic spasms of the muscles.Compare tetany.
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Sometimes te·tan·i·cal.
Origin of tetanic
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If the tetanic spasms have not commenced, the stomach-pump ought to be used.
Memoranda on PoisonsThomas Hawkes Tanner
I fancy, however, that their strength was rather of the tetanic than the titanic sort.
Literature and LifeWilliam Dean Howells
The patient progressed favorably for some days, when tetanic symptoms appeared, and under these he sank.
A Treatise on Gunshot WoundsThomas Longmore
She was an open car, capable of some eighteen miles on the flat, with tetanic gears and a perpetual palsy.
A Diversity of CreaturesRudyard Kipling
But he could not speak at once; his teeth closed with tetanic force upon each other.
Between The Dark And The DaylightWilliam Dean Howells
tetanic
- of, relating to, or producing tetanus or the spasms of tetanus
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- a tetanic drug or agent
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tetanic
(tĕ-tăn′ĭk)- Of or causing tetanus or tetany.
- Marked by sustained muscular contractions.
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- An agent that in poisonous doses produces tonic muscular spasm.
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