Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as entasis, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine tonic spasm; any disease characterized by tonic spasms, such as tetanus or trismus

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek. See entasis.

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