Definition of Tetanies

1. tetany [n] - See also: tetany

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetanies

testudo
testudos
testy
tetanal
tetani
tetania
tetania gastrica
tetania gravidarum
tetania neonatorum
tetania parathyreopriva
tetanic
tetanic convulsion
tetanical
tetanically
tetanics
tetanies (current term)
tetaniform
tetanigenous
tetanilla
tetanin
tetanise
tetanised
tetanises
tetanising
tetanism
tetanization
tetanizations
tetanize
tetanized
tetanizes

Literary usage of Tetanies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"(3) The tetanies of acute infectious diseases, typhoid fever, cholera, measels, scarlet fever, ... (7) The tetanies accompanying other nervous diseases, ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Such postoperative tetanies may set in within twenty-four hours after the operation, or at any time during several weeks thereafter. ..."

3. Modern Medicine: Its Theory and Practice, in Original Contributions by by William Osler (1909)
"It or some other organic preparation should be used in the non- operative tetanies, in order to learn whether anything approaching thyroid therapy in ..."

4. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Fortunately most of the post-operative tetanies are transient and can usually be tided over with calcium therapy alone. The removal or permanent injury to ..."

5. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"The postoperative tetanies, or the toxins may originate from many sources and produce the clinical neuromuscular symptom-complex on account of the ..."

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