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Definition of Tetanic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or causing tetany.
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or causing tetanus.
Definition of Tetanic
1. a. Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
2. 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.
Definition of Tetanic
1. Adjective. of or relating to tetanus ¹
2. Adjective. causing tetanus ¹
3. Adjective. of or relating to tetany ¹
4. Adjective. causing tetany ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetanic
1. a drug capable of causing convulsions [n -S]
Medical Definition of Tetanic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetanic
Literary usage of Tetanic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"Outside of the maniacal symptoms the cocaine manifested its effect in another
form, which was an interesting feature, and consisted in tetanic, or tonic, ..."
2. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"A critical test of this hypothesis is to determine whether synapsin phosphorylation
is correlated with LTP induced by classical means, ie tetanic ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1876)
"The character of the tetanic convulsions tends to show that they are due to the
action of the drug on the cord. The authors think that the plant contains ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"The ordinary form of muscular contraction is not a simple muscular contraction
but the more complex form known as a tetanic contraction, ..."
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