Usually means: Painful tightening of jaw muscles.
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  1. lockjaw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lockjaw: Merriam-Webster
  3. lockjaw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lockjaw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lockjaw: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lockjaw: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lockjaw, lockjaw: Wordnik
  8. lockjaw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lockjaw: Wiktionary
  10. lockjaw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lockjaw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lockjaw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lockjaw: Dictionary.com
  14. Lockjaw (EP), Lockjaw (album), Lockjaw (band), Lockjaw (comics), Lockjaw (song), Lockjaw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lockjaw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lockjaw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lockjaw: Rhymezone
  18. Lockjaw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lockjaw: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lockjaw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. lockjaw: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lockjaw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. lockjaw: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lockjaw: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Lockjaw: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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  9. lockjaw: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  12. Lockjaw: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lockjaw, Lockjaw, Lockjaw: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lockjaw: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria, causing muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.

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