Crossword-Solution: TETANIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tetanic | a. | Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction. |
| Tetanic | a. | Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n. |
| Tetanic | n. | A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TETANIC | anagram | NICTATE |
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Sentences with TETANIC (5)
Patients were seized with convulsions and tetanic spasms, rolled upon the ground like persons possessed, were thrown into violent contortions of their heads and limbs, and suffered the greatest oppression, accompanied by quickness and irregularity of pulse.
Leschenault de la Tour describes being stung by this nettle on three fingers of his hand only at the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and the subsequent sneezing and running at the nose, followed by tetanic symptoms and two days' suffering, nor did the effects disappear for nine days.
Leschenault de la Tour describes being stung by this nettle on three fingers of his hand only at the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and the subsequent sneezing and running at the nose, followed by tetanic symptoms and two days’ suffering, nor did the effects disappear for nine days.
Each man wounded, however slightly, was given an injection of anti-tetanic serum and as a result no cases of tetanus were reported, nor were any cases of gas baccilus infection reported.
The serum may be introduced directly into a vein, or into the spinal canal, _e.g._ anti-tetanic serum.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).