trismus
IPA: trˈɪzmʌs
noun
- The inability to open the mouth normally, typically as a result of disease.
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Examples of "trismus" in Sentences
- MDPV may also cause temporary trismus and/or bruxism.
- For traumatic trismus, use the B D current, of vigorous force.
- Both references are to commercial web sites selling devices to treat Trismus.
- Trismus is the inability to normally open the mouth due to one of many causes.
- The symptoms of poisoning by this species are spasms, similar to those of trismus, and agonizing general pains.
- This is substantially the same thing as _trismus_, except that it extends to other parts, and often to nearly all the muscles of the organism.
- The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna 15.217 has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to tænia solium.
- This attack lasted eight or nine months, but in 1848 there was a recurrence accompanied by a slight trismus which lasted over eighteen months, and again in 1860 he was subjected to periods of sleep lasting over twenty-four hours at a time.
- * [619] In an article on the successful preventive treatment of tetanus neonatorum, or the ` ` scourge of St. Kilda, '' of the new-born, Turner 15.198 says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev. Kenneth Macaulay in 1764, after a visit to the island of St. Kilda in 1758.
- 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."