from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An abnormal condition characterized by periodic painful muscular spasms and tremors, caused by faulty calcium metabolism and associated with diminished function of the parathyroid glands.
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- n. A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A disease characterized by irregularly intermittent tonic spasms of various groups of muscles, more commonly those of the upper extremities, unaccompanied, as a rule, by fever.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
From tetanus.(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)