(crystallography) isometric and tetragonal, but having one fourth of the number of planes required for complete symmetry

(crystallography) The property of being tetartohedral.

plural of tetanization

(physiology) The production or condition of tetanus.

(organic chemistry) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth by a microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus.

present participle of tetanize

simple past tense and past participle of tetanize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tetanize

(biology, transitive) To throw (a muscle etc.) into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in.

(zoology) Any fly in the family Tetanoceridae, now considered to be the sciomyzid tribe Tetanocerini.