trismus
Example Sentences
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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 peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
He rapidly developed blindness, trismus, difficulty in swallowing, and shortly lost consciousness.
From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan
This is substantially the same thing as trismus, except that it extends to other parts, and often to nearly all the muscles of the organism.
From A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark
He adds that the trismus may be thus converted into 'Bi-trismus.'
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
