noun
definition
Any substance that causes tetanic spasms.
example
Nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine are tetanics.
adjective
definition
Of or relating to tetanus
definition
Causing tetanus
definition
Of or relating to tetany
definition
Causing tetany
Examples of tetanic in a Sentence
The patient is then seized with violent convulsions of a tetanic character; the arms are stretched out, respiration impeded, the muscles are rigid, the body is thrown into opisthotonos, i.e.
The tetanic or summed contractions are more extensive than the simple, both in space and time, and liberate more energy, both as mechanical work and heat.
The chemical changes that accompany activity in the nerve fibre must be very small, for the production of CO 2 is barely measurable, and no production of heat is observable as the result of the most forced tetanic activity.
Morphine and the other opium alkaloids (codeine, narcotine, laudanine, &c.) have two prominent actions - a narcotic followed by a tetanic action.
These bodies stimulate the grey matter in the spinal cord and cause tetanic convulsions.
This excitation requires brief tetanic stimulation of parallel fibers and is modified by intracellular factors such as activity in the climbing fiber.
Death is due to respiratory muscle spasm (remember " tetanic contractions " from your work in physiology - where muscle never rests).
We now believe that the tetanic stimulus causes the release of a large amount of GABA.