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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."
Is tetanus a technical name for a muscle cramp?
No tetanus is an acute often fatal disease caused by a neurotoxin
What muscle relaxants are used to treat tetanus?
Diazepam and methocarbamol are also used by injection for relief of tetanus.
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.
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
Tetanus of a muscle is thought to be caused by?
Tetanospasmin is thought to cause the symptoms of tetanus, it is a exotoxin produced by the Clostridium tetani bacterium.
