Medical Definition of Tetanise
1. To stimulate a muscle by a rapid series of stimuli so that the individual muscular responses (contractions) are fused into a sustained contraction; to cause tetanus in a muscle. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetanise
Literary usage of Tetanise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1873)
"... or he would have known that much less than 30 minims of the tincture would
half tetanise many patients, and that it is very rarely advisable to exceed ..."
2. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1905)
"Thus Marie' was able, during the whole of the winter, to tetanise both green and
brown frogs living in water the temperature of which oscillated between 13" ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1888)
"From the fact that certain poisons tetanise to the proof that tetanus depends on
a poison, is a much longer step than at first sight appears. ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1874)
"... require a dose of digitalis, merely to support a sufficient amount of contraction
to continue life, which in health would fatally tetanise the heart. ..."
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