trismus
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Cerebro-spinal meningitis and basal meningitis present certain superficial resemblances to tetanus, but there is no trismus, and the spasms chiefly affect the muscles of the neck and back.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
He adds that the trismus may be thus converted into 'Bi-trismus.'
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
He rapidly developed blindness, trismus, difficulty in swallowing, and shortly lost consciousness.
From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan
The symptoms of poisoning by this species are spasms, similar to those of trismus, and agonizing general pains.
From Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The tetanus consists of a fixed spasm of almost all the muscles of the body; but the trismus, or locked jaw, is the most frequent disease of this kind.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
