opisthotonos

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The past was a dim montage of life at the agency and the treatment center and the ranch, a recollection of lying on the river bank with women in attitudes of opisthotonos or of lying against the boulders with a rifle.

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  1. A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

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  1. severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back

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  • At one moment the patient was extended at full length with her body arched forward in a state of opisthotonos. —  Primitive Love and Love-Stories
  • The past was a dim montage of life at the agency and the treatment center and the ranch, a recollection of lying on the river bank with women in attitudes of opisthotonos or of lying against the boulders with a rifle. —  This Crowded Earth
  • _ -- Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed by tetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes. —  Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
  • Last of all, when the other channels for the escape of the surplus nerve-force have been filled to overflowing, a yet further and less-used group of muscles is spasmodically affected: the head is thrown back and the spine bent inwards -- there is a slight degree of what medical men call opisthotonos. —  Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • The chief personage in it was a lady reclining at full length on a long couch, and being dragged along, looking the picture of misery, emaciated to the last degree, her head drawn back almost in a state of opisthotonos, her hands and arms clenched and contracted, her eyes fixed and staring at the sky. —  Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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