tetany

IPA: tˈɛtʌni

(medicine) A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism

Examples of "tetany" in Sentences

The complications of tetany and hypoparathyrodism were not understood.
Hypocalcemic tetany as an early sign of DiGeorge syndrome in adult woman.
Although tetany occurs in all muscles that are stimulated, flexor groups are usually stronger and predominate.
This glandular decline interferes with calcium metabolism and may produce the condition of hypocalcemic tetany.
“I could not control it,” he said, “and my back and legs hurt; it was almost like tetany violent muscle spasms and convulsions.”
Last time we had a bird, a parakeet, it lived for five or six years and then had a stroke, began having a kind of rolling tetany.
You could actually feel the delicious muscle tetany spasming through Clegg's jaw as he fought to control the Coitus reservatus for after PMQs.
Experiments on animals, which proved more sensitive to loss of the parathyroids than men were, showed that muscles tightened convulsively, a situation called tetany (tet'uh-nee; "stretch" G).