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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis [syn: tetany, tetanilla, intermittent tetanus, intermittent cramp, apyretic tetanus]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Latin tetanus Date: circa 1885 a condition of physiological calcium imbalance marked by tonic spasm of muscles and often associated with deficient parathyroid secretion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a disease with intermittent muscular spasms caused by malfunction of the parathyroid glands and a consequent deficiency of calcium. Etymology: F tétanie (as TETANUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tetany Tet"a*ny, n. (Med.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.