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tetanus

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English

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Muscular spasms in a patient suffering from tetanus.

Etymology

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

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Noun

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tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetanuses or 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.
    Synonym: lockjaw
  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”, in Science[1], volume 279, number 5349, →DOI, pages 399–403:
      We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway []

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Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛtanus]
  • Hyphenation: te‧ta‧nus

Noun

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tetanus m inan

  1. tetanus (pathology)

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Further reading

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  • tetanus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • tetanus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

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Etymology

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From Latin tetanus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtetɑnus/, [ˈt̪e̞t̪ɑ̝nus̠]
  • Rhymes: -etɑnus
  • Hyphenation(key): te‧ta‧nus

Noun

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tetanus

  1. (pathology) tetanus

Declension

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Inflection of tetanus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative tetanus tetanukset
genitive tetanuksen tetanusten
tetanuksien
partitive tetanusta tetanuksia
illative tetanukseen tetanuksiin
singular plural
nominative tetanus tetanukset
accusative nom. tetanus tetanukset
gen. tetanuksen
genitive tetanuksen tetanusten
tetanuksien
partitive tetanusta tetanuksia
inessive tetanuksessa tetanuksissa
elative tetanuksesta tetanuksista
illative tetanukseen tetanuksiin
adessive tetanuksella tetanuksilla
ablative tetanukselta tetanuksilta
allative tetanukselle tetanuksille
essive tetanuksena tetanuksina
translative tetanukseksi tetanuksiksi
abessive tetanuksetta tetanuksitta
instructive tetanuksin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of tetanus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

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Latin

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Etymology

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

Noun

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tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension

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

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tetanus tetanī
genitive tetanī tetanōrum
dative tetanō tetanīs
accusative tetanum tetanōs
ablative tetanō tetanīs
vocative tetane tetanī

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Swedish

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Noun

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tetanus c

  1. (pathology) tetanus
    Synonym: (more common) stelkramp

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