Sample Sentences fortetanus (editor-reviewed)
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The Masai guide had a gap cut between his front teeth so that nutrients could be consumed in the event of tetanus (lockjaw).tetanus = a deadly bacterial infection that results in muscle spasms whose symptoms include locking the jaw tightly closed
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Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw and the death grip.
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A booster shot is recommended every ten years to protect against tetanus.tetanus = bacterial infection from puncture wounds
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"There's no tetanus," she said. (source)tetanus = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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There is an army medical lance-corporal with it who sticks an anti-tetanus needle into our chests. (source)tetanus = a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound
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He got a tetanus shot, and now we're loading him with antibiotics and pain medication. (source)tetanus shot = a shot doctors give to provide immediate, short-term protection against a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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Tetanus? Yellow fever? All those shots? (source)Tetanus = a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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Carla's mother thought I should go to the hospital for stitches and a tetanus shot. (source)tetanus shot = a shot doctors give to provide immediate, short-term protection against a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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Antitetanus please, and mark a cross on both legs.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antitetanus means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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Like that baby born blue out of that woman with tetanus this morning.† (source)
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Jodie had told her about a boy who stepped on a rusty nail and didn't get a tetanus shot.† (source)
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Get some more of that Antitetanus.† (source)
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I wondered what the incubation period was for tetanus or—or for rabies.† (source)
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He had to go to the doctor and have a tetanus shot.† (source)
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She coils and uncoils the phone cord around her finger as he recounts her mother's hospital visit, the forehead laceration, the sutures, the precautionary tetanus injection, the aftercare of peroxide, topical antibiotics, dressings.† (source)
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It was a deep gash, about three or four inches long—not serious; but he would require some stitches to close the wound, and a tetanus shot.† (source)
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