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tetanus

Tetanus is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter T and ends with the letter S for which we found 2 definitions.

Definition
(n.) A painful and usually fatal disease resulting generally from a wound and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected it is called locked-jaw or lickjaw and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
(n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.

Syllable Information

The word tetanus is a 7 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for tetanus is: tet-a-nus


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