tetanus

tetanus is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses
4. noun. an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages

   Synonyms: lockjaw

Synonyms

lockjaw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tetanus:

attunes, estuant, nutates, tautens, unstate, untaste

Common word forms

tetanuses

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