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語源

From Latin tetanus, from Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/, /ˈtɛt.nəs/
• 韻: (General 米国用法) -ɛtnəs

名詞

tetanus (usually uncountable, 複数形 tetanuses または tetani)

1. (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

2. (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^[1], 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 […]

派生語

Further reading

• tetanus on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• attunes, nutates, tautens, unstate, untaste

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek τέτανος (tétanos); New Latin usage specific to the bacteria-caused disease.

名詞

tetanus m (genitive tetanī); second declension

1. A stiffness or spasm of the neck; tetanus
2. (New Latin) The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

参照

• “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 かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tetanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette