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Another sequela of cholera is a tetanic contraction of the flexor muscles of the limbs.
The convulsions may become tetanic (as opisthotonos).
Sense of suffocation, twitchings of muscles, followed bytetanic convulsions and opisthotonos, each lasting half to two minutes.
There may be convulsions or tetanic spasms, with evacuation of urine and fæces.
In tetanic spasm the limbs when bent return to their former position; not so in rigor mortis.
Cook's death was horrible--fearful paroxysms and cramps, ending in suffocation by the tetanic rigour which caught the muscles of the chest.
Doctor Wayn put him through a general examination, then a specific check for suggestibility, hypnotic index, reactions to the eleven basic drug groups, and susceptibility to tetanic and epileptic seizures.
If the skin of a frog be dried, and a few drops of a solution containing strychnia applied to it, strong tetanic convulsions will ensue, and be reproduced every time the animal is touched or irritated.
As death approaches the tetanic spasms rapidly succeed each other; and the patient sinks, suffocated during an attack, or exhausted during an interval, in about two hours from the beginning of the symptoms.
Then there is usually dyspnoea, great depression, coldness of the extremities, headache with giddiness, and slight tetanic convulsions.
The effects of these plants are exerted upon the spinal cord; as is manifest by the violent convulsions and the tetanic contractions of the muscles which they produce.
If the tetanic spasms have not commenced, the stomach-pump ought to be used.
Taylor gives a case where death with tetanicsymptoms followed the fatal dose in twenty minutes.
Chloroform is to be given to relieve spasm and pain, but the patient should be disturbed as little as possible, as the least thing induces the tetanic attack.
In cases where there is marked fatigue, as for instance in certain muscles, the top of the tetaniccurve undergoes rapid decline.
If there is not much fatigue, the upper part of the tetanic curve is approximately horizontal, but in cases where fatigue sets in quickly, the fact is shown by the rapid decline of the curve.
The tetanic symptoms of the left leg now gradually diminished.
At the end of eight days there was a marked improvement and the whole course ran to approximate recovery in 25 days from the onset of tetanic symptoms, at which time the man was able to get up and walk on a crutch.
Re differential diagnosis of tetanic conditions, see Courtois-Suffit and Giroux in the Collection Horizon.
It would seem that the impregnation with tetanic virus or toxin must last in the nervous system a good deal longer than the apparent disease clinically lasts, but that this belated and concealed intoxication eventually passes.
The wounds suppurated freely during the tetanic crises, but then healed.
The first phase of painful contractures and spasms with respiratory disorder was succeeded by an analgesic phase of characteristically tetanic rigidity.
In fact, a tetanic syndrome took place in the midst of the anesthesia.
Also in the more severe forms of nerve injury tetanic contractions may be set up in the paralysed muscles, by closure of the current either at the anode or kathode.
When the interrupted current is used to stimulate the skin over a motor nerve, all the muscles supplied by that nerve are thrown into rapid tetanic contraction, the contraction both beginning and ceasing sharply and suddenly with the current.
An animal accustomed gradually to the tetanic virus yields a serum containing an antitoxin a thousand times more active than the virus.
According to Vaillard, a quintillionth of a cubic centimeter of this antitetanic serum suffices to preserve one gramme of living mouse from the effects of a dose of tetanic serum that would otherwise be surely fatal.
It must be observed, however, that Behring and Knorr oppose the assertion regarding the albuminoid nature of tetanic antitoxin, but their reasons for this do not appear to be well founded.
Tetanic convulsions have been divided in later times into two specific branches of tetanus—idiopathic and traumatic.
Can you tell me any case in which a patient after being seized with tetanic symptoms sat up in bed and talked?
Epilepsy is a well-known disease which includes many others, and the convulsions of that disease sometimes assume tetanic appearances.
I have not seen cases in which this inflammation has produced tetanic form of convulsions, but such cases are on record.
Now, I ask you to distinguish in any one particular between those symptoms and the symptoms of tetanic convulsions.
The last witness had given his opinion that Cook died from epileptic convulsions, accompanied with tetanic complications, and this he thought might have been produced by mental or sensual excitement.
Sometimes the convulsions of epilepsy assume somewhat of a tetanic character, but they are essentially distinct from tetanus.
I never knew syphilitic poison produce tetanic convulsions, except in cases where there was disease of the bones of the head.
The other varieties of the affection call for opium at the start, with the double view of preventing the irregular, spasmodic, or tetanic contraction of the muscular coat and of obviating the danger of peritonitis.
Kussmaul was the first to call attention to the occurrence of tetanic spasms in cases of dilatation of the stomach.
The tetanic spasms affect especially the flexor muscles of the hand and forearm, the muscles of the calves of the legs, and the abdominal muscles.
The spasm may be confined to one or more of these groups of muscles, or there may be general tetanic contraction of the muscles of the body.
The child has been to all appearances perfectly healthy, when, without warning, there occurs a series of tetanicspasms like a succession of electric shocks.
With general tetanicspasms the pupils are usually contracted, and often irresponsive to light.
Although tetanicspasms increase the gravity of the prognosis, they are not necessarily fatal.
It is said that it frequently causes the death of milch cows, and that in man its bite produces tetanic effects, which last for several days, but are in most cases amenable to treatment.
Although it appears to be nearly destitute of glands, this animal secretes a very active venom, which has a penetrating odour and kills mice in a few minutes, producing vomiting, convulsions, and tetanic spasms of the muscles.
It is a convulsion-producing poison, comparable to picrotoxin, but its effects differ from those of the latter substance in that the convulsions are accompanied by tetanic spasms.
The action of this poison on the frog is characterised by a period of violent convulsions, with general tetanic crises, followed by a period of paralysis, with arrest of respiration and complete muscular relaxation.
There are muscular twitchings all over the body, possibly associated with convulsions and tetanic seizures, and these are followed by coma and speedy death" (Macewen).
Sometimes he suffers from a general tetanic seizure associated with arrest of respiration, which is usually of short duration and is frequently overlooked, but may prove fatal.
To arrest tetanus by substituting cerebral for subcutaneous inoculations of the anti-tetanic serum was the next feat attempted.
Defn: Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
Defn: A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.
This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, or tetanic contraction.
In two cases which we witnessed of individuals poisoned by strychnine, similar tetanic phenomena were observed.
There aretetanic convulsions, and death follows through asphyxia.
Reflex action is annihilated, the spontaneous respiratory movements cease, the heart beats tumultuously and regularly in the severe tetanic convulsions at first, and then contracts with frequency but with regularity.
In the severer cases there were tetanic spasms, muscular tremors, and anaesthesia of the fingers and toes.
Great difficulty in breathing andtetanic convulsions are present.
There are pain and burning in the stomach, nausea, vomiting, headache, and thentetanic convulsions.
He had it some time in his mouth, and in half an hour suffered from frightful tetanic convulsions.
There are also nervous phenomena, convulsions, trismus, and, in a few cases, tetanic spasms.
Roehrig found that, when administered to rabbits, it had a very evident effect upon the pregnant uterus, throwing it into a tetanic contraction.
A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.
It is a violent irritant of the mucous membranes and given internally it causes emesis, diarrhoea, tetanic convulsions and death.
He further emphasized the difference in the behavior of these two species of frogs toward caffein by stating that he never observed tetanic convulsions in the red frog.
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