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  • "There's no tetanus," she said.  (source)
    tetanus = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • 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
  • Carla's mother thought I should go to the hospital for stitches and a tetanus shot.  (source)
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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
  • Jodie had told her about a boy who stepped on a rusty nail and didn't get 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
  • Antitetanus please, and mark a cross on both legs.†  (source)
    Antitetanus = an agent that works against a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
    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.
  • 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
  • He had to go to the doctor and have 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
  • Get some more of that Antitetanus.†  (source)
    Antitetanus = an agent that works against a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • Like that baby born blue out of that woman with tetanus this morning.†  (source)
    tetanus = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • They all three in the front seat, Mae Mobley squeezed in the middle with a look so miserable you think she about to get 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
  • I wondered what the incubation period was for tetanus or—or for rabies.†  (source)
    tetanus = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • 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)
    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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