tetanus
41tetanus antitoxin — noun antitoxin given for short term immunization against tetanus in cases of possible exposure to the tetanus bacillus • Hypernyms: ↑antitoxin …
42tetanus toxin — noun or tetanal toxin : a crystalline unstable neurotoxin produced by the tetanus bacillus and held to be the cause of the tetanic convulsions of tetanus called also tetanospasmin …
43tetanus toxoid — Pharm. an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin. * * * …
44tetanus bacillus — noun see tetanus 1b …
45tetanus toxoid — Pharm. an inactivated form of tetanus toxin obtained from Clostridium tetani, used to produce an active immunity to the toxin …
46tetanus — См. tetany …
47tetanus — (tet ah nus) An often fatal disease caused by the anaerobic, spore forming bacillus Clostridium tetani, and characterized by muscle spasms and convulsions …
48tetanus — noun /ˈtɛtənəs,ˈtɛt̚nɨs/ a) 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. b) A state of muscle tension caused by …
49tetanus — Synonyms and related words: African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, German measles, Haverhill fever, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, acute articular rheumatism,… …
50TETANUS — or LOCK JAW a nervous affection of a most painful and fatal character, which usually begins with intensely painful and persistent cramp of the muscles of the throat and jaws, spreading down to the larger muscles of the body. As the disease… …
