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is produced by
Clostridium tetani bacteria. Tetanus involves generalized rigidity and painful convulsive
spasms of skeletal muscles, occurring 3 to 21 days after infection. The muscle stiffness
usually involves the jaw (lockjaw) and neck muscles, and then becomes generalized.
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How can you use tetanus in a sentence?
Everybody has tetanus which is a muscle
What is a Continuous partial contraction of muscle?
Tetanus
What is the difference between unfused tetanus and fused tetanus?
Unfused tetanus-"the relaxation time between successive twitches will get shorter as the strength of contraction increases in amplitude." On the other hand, Fused tetanus-"Smooth, sustained muscle contraction."
What muscle relaxants are used to treat tetanus?
Diazepam and methocarbamol are also used by injection for relief of tetanus.
Is tetanus a technical name for a muscle cramp?
No tetanus is an acute often fatal disease caused by a neurotoxin
What is the effect of Tetanus?
Muscle spasms, and difficulty to breathe.
A Muscle produces its highest tension when in complete?
tetanus
How can tetanus kill a person?
what tetanus does is cause painful, uncontrolled muscle spasms. essentially the body with have a huge muscle spasm that cannot be stopped and bones in the body can break such as the spine.
A maximal sustained muscle contraction is called a?
Tetanus
Why skeletal muscle can undergo tetanus?
It can but it undergoes incomplete tetanus, in this case there is a short period of relaxtion before a new contractian is initiated. The muscle contraction will go up in a wave like line..
Which phase of a muscle twitch is eliminated in complete tetanus?
relaxation phase
Signs and symptoms of tetanus neonatorum?
lockjow, contracture of muscle, hypertonia
