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Tetanus disease

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lockjawnoun(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.
trismusnounThe inability to open the mouth normally, typically as a result of disease.
tetanynoun(medicine) A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism.
antitoxinnoun(medicine) A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
bacterianoun(US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
tetanizationnoun(physiology) The production or condition of tetanus.
clostridiumnoun(bacteriology) Any of several mostly anaerobic gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Clostridium, that are present in the soil and in the intestines of humans and animals and are capable of forming spores
spasmnounA sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
traumaticnounOf, caused by, or causing trauma.
cowpoxnounA pustular, eruptive skin disease of cattle caused by a virus of species Orthopoxvirus cowpox, with lesions occurring principally on the udder and teats. Human infection may occur from touching cows, and gives immunity to smallpox.
inoculationnoun(immunology) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
vaccinenoun(immunology) A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
toxin antitoxinnouna mixture of toxin and antitoxin used to immunize against a disease
entasisnoun(architecture) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
biologicalnounOf or relating to biology.
mumpsnoun(pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
takeverb(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
vaccinateverb(transitive) To treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
vaccinatedInoculated with a vaccine.
vaccinatingnounthe act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

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