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Trismus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See lockjaw.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The inability to normally open the mouth, such as a result of disease.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The lockjaw.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A tonic spasm of the muscles of mastication, causing closure of the lower jaw, occurring as a manifestation of tetanus, either alone or in conjunction with other tonic muscular spasms; lockjaw.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. prolonged spasm of the jaw muscles

Word Usage

"From this it appears that the trismus is the trismus: but he observes with the greatest modesty that if science knows that the trismus is the trismus, it is entirely ignorant of the cause of this nervous affection, which comes and goes, appears and disappears -- "and," he adds, "we have decided that it is altogether nervous.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

muscle spasm cramp spasm

Cross Reference

trismus neonatorum

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

lockjaw