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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. n. 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
4. n. a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses
5. 1. (Med.) 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. (Physiol.) 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.
6. A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from awound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of thevoluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, itis called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from thevarious incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
7. n:100 n. 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 n. a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses