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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtɛt.ən.əs/, /ˈtɛt.nəs/
• 韻: (General American) -ɛtnəs

名詞

tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetani or tetanuses)

1. (pathology, usually uncountable) 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

   • 2012, Yoshito Kawakatsu, Satoshi Kaneko, Mohamed Karama, Sumihisa Honda, “Prevalence and risk factors of neurological impairment among children aged 6-9 years: from population based cross sectional study in western Kenya”, in BMC Pediatrics, volume 12, →DOI, page 4:

     Compared to 290 children with TQQ negative, CWDs were significantly less likely to receive antenatal care (P=0.003), to get a maternal tetanus shot during antenatal care (P=0.004) and to receive full vaccination (P=0.01).

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, 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.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• attunes, nutates, Tenutas, tautens, unstate, untaste

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, 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.