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Definition of Tetanics
1. Noun. (medicine dated) A class of diseases of the nerves that affect the spinal cord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tetanics
1. tetanic [n] - See also: tetanic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetanics
Literary usage of Tetanics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materia Medica and Therapeutics by Martyn Paine (1848)
"tetanics, In the order of their value. Remedies of this class have the effect of
developing the nervous power in such violence as to produce convulsions in ..."
2. New Remedies: An Illustrated Monthly Trade Journal of Materia Medica edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"We shall now proceed to examine the distribution of tetanic poisons in the various
natural orders. And here we find that the spinal tetanics are exclusively ..."