Usually means: Involuntary muscle spasms and contractions.
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  1. tetany: Merriam-Webster
  2. tetany: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tetany: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tetany: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. tetany: Wordnik
  7. tetany: Wiktionary
  8. tetany: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Tetany (medical sign), Tetany: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. tetany: FreeDictionary.org
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  17. Tetany: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tetany: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

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  1. tetany: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tetany: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tetany: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Tetany (muscle spasm): Merck Manuals
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  9. tetany: Medical dictionary
  10. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Tetany: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tetany)

▸ noun:  (medicine) A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism.

Similar:
entasia, tetanism, tetanization, tetanospasm, tetanus, grass tetany, pseudotetany, hypertonia, catatonus, myelasthenia, more...

Phrases:
grass tetany, hypocalcemic tetany, neonatal tetany, latent tetany, parathyroid tetany, more...

Adjectives:
hypocalcemic, latent, neonatal, infantile, parathyroid, gastric, postoperative, severe, uterine, chronic, acute

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Similar:
entasia, tetanism, tetanization, tetanospasm, tetanus, grass tetany, pseudotetany, hypertonia, catatonus, myelasthenia, more...

Phrases:
grass tetany, hypocalcemic tetany, neonatal tetany, latent tetany, parathyroid tetany, lactation tetany, puerperal tetany, hyperventilation tetany, gastric tetany, duration tetany, transport tetany, more...

Adjectives:
hypocalcemic, latent, neonatal, infantile, parathyroid, gastric, postoperative, severe, uterine, chronic, acute



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