trismus
Americannoun
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trismuses
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a spasm of the jaw muscles that makes it difficult to open the mouth.
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Origin of trismus
1685–95; < New Latin < Greek trismós a grinding
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This is substantially the same thing as trismus, except that it extends to other parts, and often to nearly all the muscles of the organism.
From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The tetanus consists of a fixed spasm of almost all the muscles of the body; but the trismus, or locked jaw, is the most frequent disease of this kind.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The symptoms of poisoning by this species are spasms, similar to those of trismus, and agonizing general pains.
From Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams
He adds that the trismus may be thus converted into 'Bi-trismus.'
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
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