💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Tetanus disease"
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| Word | Definition |
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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. |
| trismusnoun | The 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 |
| spasmnoun | A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ. |
| traumaticnoun | Of, caused by, or causing trauma. |
| cowpoxnoun | A 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 antitoxinnoun | a 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. |
| biologicalnoun | Of 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. |
| vaccinated | Inoculated with a vaccine. |
| vaccinatingnoun | the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity |
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