Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling tetanus.
- noun An attack of tetanus or some similar spasmodic disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med. & Physiol.) Resembling tetanus.
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- adjective Resembling
tetanus .
Etymologies
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tetanus + -oid
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Examples
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If there is any truth, then, in the germ theory of disease, it is not so very improbable that a fungus which will produce blight in grain may cause cholera or tetanoid fever in an animal.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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