[はしょうふうきん, hashoufuukin] (n) Clostridium tetani (tetanus bacillus) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tetanus \Tet"a*nus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? stretched, ? to
stretch.]
1. (Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting
generally from a wound, and having as its principal
symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When
the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called
{locked-jaw}, or {lickjaw}, and it takes various names
from the various incurvations of the body resulting from
the spasm.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Physiol.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a
state of continued vibratory contraction, as when
stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tetanus
n 1: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous
system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms
of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late
stages [syn: {tetanus}, {lockjaw}]
2: a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid
series of nerve impulses
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