Definition of Tetanises

1. tetanise [v] - See also: tetanise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetanises

tetania gravidarum
tetania neonatorum
tetania parathyreopriva
tetanic
tetanic convulsion
tetanical
tetanically
tetanics
tetanies
tetaniform
tetanigenous
tetanilla
tetanin
tetanise
tetanised
tetanises (current term)
tetanising
tetanism
tetanization
tetanizations
tetanize
tetanized
tetanizes
tetanizing
tetano-
tetanode
tetanoid
tetanolysin
tetanometer
tetanomotor

Literary usage of Tetanises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Veterinary Medicines by Finlay Dun (1911)
"Opium is narcotic, anodyne, and hypnotic ; but it also stimulates certain patients, and tetanises others. Disregarding the classifications hitherto adopted, ..."

2. Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews by John Tyndall (1896)
"It is the intermittent current, not the continuous one, that tetanises the nerve, and half the interest of the Alps depends upon the caprices of the air. ..."

3. Studies on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1870)
"On the one hand it may be su that the over stimulus tetanises the heart, producing such contraction that the ventricles no longer relax to admit blood, ..."

4. Elements of Human Physiology by Ludimar Hermann (1875)
"The dependence of the note upon the number of stimuli applied per second becomes evident to any one who tetanises his own ..."

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