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7-letter words (5 found)

ATTUNES,NUTATES,TAUTENS,TETANUS,UNSTATE,

6-letter words (9 found)

ASTUTE,ATTUNE,NASUTE,NUTATE,STATUE,TAUNTS,TAUTEN,TUTSAN,UNSEAT,

5-letter words (32 found)

ANTES,ASTUN,AUNES,AUNTS,ETATS,ETNAS,NATES,NEATS,NETTS,SAUNT,SAUTE,STANE,STATE,STAUN,STEAN,STENT,STUNT,SUENT,SUTTA,TASTE,TATES,TATUS,TAUNT,TAUTS,TEATS,TENTS,TESTA,TUANS,TUNAS,TUNES,UNSET,USNEA,

4-letter words (59 found)

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3-letter words (45 found)

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2-letter words (17 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of tetanus

tetanus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/, /ˈtɛt.nəs/
  • Rhymes: (General American) -ɛtnəs

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • tetanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • attunes, nutates, tautens, unstate, untaste

Czech

Alternative forms

  • tetan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tetanus m inan

  1. tetanus (pathology)

Declension

Further reading

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin tetanus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tetanus

  1. (pathology) tetanus

Declension

Synonyms

  • jäykkäkouristus

Further reading

  • “tetanus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • astunet, sattuen

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

  • “tetanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tetanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tetanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

Noun

tetanus c

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

References

  • tetanus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tetanus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tetanus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org