Tetanus: Also known as lockjaw; causes painful muscle spasms, breathing failure, death. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
KING: Is this commonly called lockjaw?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2004] Reference
She had a kind of lockjaw of grief such as children suffer and suffer for. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Tetanus, also known as "lockjaw;" Diphtheria, an upper respiratory disease; and Pertussis, also known as "whooping cough.". From Wordnik.com. [News for Opelika-Auburn News] Reference
Sadly, the goldeye were apparently exhibiting the kind of lockjaw that often comes with scudding clouds and falling barometers. From Wordnik.com. [Edmonton Sun] Reference
= of tetanus; illness also known as "lockjaw"; caused by bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [behind AotW] Reference
'Not unless you have lockjaw, which is possible. From Wordnik.com. [The White Sister] Reference
But they've never known what he did to cure lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And someone give Murth a case of two-week lockjaw!!!. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Camp Scaling Back Ads In Key States, Betting On Pennsylvania] Reference
This is especially true in the case of tetanus, or lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Now-a-days you gets a rusty nail in yo foot an has lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives] Reference
No person need die of lockjaw if these directions are followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
The jaw shuts tightly (lockjaw) and the body suddenly bends back. From Wordnik.com. [1) Head Control and Use of Senses] Reference
I was staying with Brother and Sister E. Olson and lockjaw set in. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Experiences of S O Susag]
The bacillus which causes tetanus or lockjaw will illustrate this. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
Skin diseases like ringworm, blood poisoning, lockjaw (tetanus). From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference
Ye know how Cross is -- as tight-mouthed as a clam with the lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Not to mention lockjaw or blood poisoning from a simple cut or scrape. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
There was a term when we were kids, we used to hear a lot of -- lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Does Jenny Craig Have to Say Now That She Can Speak? - March 21, 2001] Reference
After several hours or days, lockjaw and the other signs of tetanus begin. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
Nothing says "fun for the whole family" like cholera, rickets and lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Caught In The 'Iron Triangle'] Reference
Another, a victim of lockjaw, only yielded to the influence of chloroform. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Tetanus, or lockjaw, is another example of these essentially toxic diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Disease and Its Causes] Reference
Much the same is true of the bacillus which causes tetanus or lockjaw (Fig. 29). From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
He kept Sissy's identity a secret and paid his photographer extra to develop lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
But mankind in general will never adopt it, since the danger from lockjaw is so small. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
· The jaw gets stiff (lockjaw), then the muscles of the neck and other parts of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
They burnt my lips thess now like a coal o 'fire an' -- an 'lockjaw is goin' roun 'tur'ble. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
And my mother said that he had a remedy, or a cure rather, for lockjaw which was known to him. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
A fine young fellow, whose arm had been shattered, was just falling into the spasms of lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
For adults and children over 12 years old, the most important vaccine is for tetanus (lockjaw). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
The doctor had give Sonny a big apple to eat an 'pernounced him free from all symptoms o' lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
The poison produced by the tetanus bacillus is of this nature, and recovery from lockjaw is of the rarest occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Germ Life] Reference
Ere another twenty-four hours had gone by, her sorrowful master was called away from the villa to see her die of lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Now he was face to face with something more difficult than a swift and dangerous adventure -- the slow, dying agony of lockjaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
Of course they are only blank cartridges, "he added cheerfully," but if the wadding hits you Bunn, lockjaw is almost sure to follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference
Does not Mr. Bryant say, that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
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