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/
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.
- 1998 January 16, Pierre-Marie Lledo et al., “Postsynaptic Membrane Fusion and Long-Term Potentiation”, in Science, volume 279, number 5349, DOI:, pages 399-403:
- We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway […]
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Derived terms
Translations
disease
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Czech
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtɛtanus]
- Hyphenation: te‧ta‧nus
Declension
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtetɑnus/, [ˈt̪e̞t̪ɑnus̠]
- 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 | |
| instructive | — | tetanuksin | |
| abessive | tetanuksetta | tetanuksitta | |
| comitative | — | tetanuksineen | |
| Possessive forms of tetanus (type vastaus) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | tetanukseni | tetanuksemme |
| 2nd person | tetanuksesi | tetanuksenne |
| 3rd person | tetanuksensa | |
Synonyms
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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