tetanus

See also: Tetanus

§English

Wikipedia

Muscular spasms in a patient suffering from tetanus.

§Etymology

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

§Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛtənəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt̚nɨs/

§Noun

tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetani)

1. (pathology, countable) 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.
2. (physiology, countable) 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.
   • 1998 January 16, Pierre-Marie Lledo et al., “Postsynaptic Membrane Fusion and Long-Term Potentiation”^[1], Science, volume 279, number 5349, DOI:10.1126/science.279.5349.399, pages 399-403: 

     We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway (Fig. 4 B).

§Synonyms

• (disease caused by Clostridium tetani): lockjaw

§Derived terms

• tetanal
• tetanic
• tetany

§Translations

disease

• Arabic: الكزاز
• Armenian: փայտացում (pʿaytacʿum)
• Czech: tetanus m
• Esperanto: tetano
• Finnish: jäykkäkouristus (fi), tetanus (fi)
• French: tétanos (fr) m
• Galician: tétano m
• German: Tetanus (de) m, Wundstarrkrampf (de) m

• Greek: τέτανος (el) m (tétanos)
• Italian: tetano (it) m
• Mandarin: trad. 破傷風, simpl. 破伤风 (pòshāngfēng)
• Polish: tężec m
• Portuguese: tétano (pt) m
• Russian: столбняк (ru) m (stolbn'ák)
• Spanish: tétanos (es)
• Swedish: stelkramp
• Turkish: tetanoz (tr), kazıklı humma (tr)

§Anagrams

• attunes
• tautens

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§Czech

Wikipedia ^cs

§Noun

tetanus m

1. tetanus (pathology)

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§Latin

§Etymology

From Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos); New Latin usage specific to the bacteria-caused disease.

§Noun

tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension

1. A stiffness or spasm of the neck; tetanus
2. (New Latin) The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.