Noun:

தசைகளைக் கடினமாக இறுகச் செய்யும் நோய்,

tetanus's Usage Examples:

"Further, these molecules in the nervous system present the same susceptibility to heat and other physical agencies as does tetanus antitoxin.

The first sign of tetanus is a tightening of the jaw muscles that gives the disease its common name, lockjaw.

"The second tetanus type is traumatic tetanus, which is also referred to in England as " lockjaw ".

Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine-The standard vaccine used to immunize children against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough.

The disease can be prevented by immunization with tetanus toxoid or the use of antitoxin which is routinely carried out in horses.

I might bleed too much, stain my bedclothes, get tetanus, have a poorly healing open wound or any number of nasties.

Such serums are injected subcutaneously in diphtheria, tetanus, streptococcic infections, plague, snake-poisoning, cholera and other similar diseases.

tetanus jabs are up to date.

Amongst these may be mentioned the neutralizing of the toxins in cases of diphtheria, tetanus and poisonous snake-bite; " serum therapeutics "; and treatment by " vaccines.

Of such are tetanus and diphtheria, now known to be due to the establishment from without of a local microbic infection, from which focus a toxin is diffused to the nervous matter.

Immunity against toxins also became a subject of investigation, and the result was the discovery of the antitoxic action of the serum of animals immunized against tetanus toxin by E.

Yersin (1888), and in the case of tetanus a little later by various observers.

The standard course of immunization for healthy children is three doses of DPT (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis) preparation given between two months and six months of age, with booster doses given at 18 months and at entry into school.

Synonyms:

contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction,

Antonyms:

incorruptness, good health, expansion, increase,