Dictionary

tetanus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/ (General-American)
• /ˈtɛt.nəs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) 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.
   • Compared to 290 children with TQQ negative, CWDs were significantly less likely to receive antenatal care (P=0.003), to get a maternal tetanus shot during antenatal care (P=0.004) and to receive full vaccination (P=0.01). 2012, Yoshito Kawakatsu, Satoshi Kaneko, Mohamed Karama, Sumihisa Honda, “Prevalence and risk factors of neurological impairment among children aged 6-9 years: from population based cross sectional study in western Kenya”, in BMC Pediatrics, volume 12, →DOI, page 4:
2. (countable, usually) 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.
   • We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway […] 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:

Forms

Deriveds

antitetanus · pseudotetanus · tetanin · tetanoid · antitetanic · tetanization · tetany · DPT · tetanize · tetanic · tetanal

Synonyms

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Translations (118)

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