tetanus
See also: Tetanus
English
Muscular spasms in a patient suffering from tetanus.
Etymology
From Latin tetanus, from Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/, /ˈtɛt.nəs/
- Rhymes: (General American) -ɛtnəs
Noun
tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetanuses or tetani)
- (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
- (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.
Translations
disease
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Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛtanus]
- Hyphenation: te‧ta‧nus
Declension
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtetɑnus/, [ˈt̪e̞t̪ɑ̝nus̠]
- Rhymes: -etɑnus
- Syllabification(key): te‧ta‧nus
Declension
| 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. | |||
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “tetanus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos); New Latin usage specific to the bacteria-caused disease.
Noun
tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension
- A stiffness or spasm of the neck; tetanus
- (New Latin) The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tetanus | tetanī |
| Genitive | tetanī | tetanōrum |
| Dative | tetanō | tetanīs |
| Accusative | tetanum | tetanōs |
| Ablative | tetanō | tetanīs |
| Vocative | tetane | tetanī |
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
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