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tetanus
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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)
  • Like that baby born blue out of that woman with tetanus this morning.†   (source)
  • That child has tetanus and will die.†   (source)
  • And, only days later, another baby, from beyond Zanmi Lasante's catchment area, died of tetanus.†   (source)
  • Tetanus toxoid?†   (source)
  • That's nothing compared to some of the other diseases she says she's suffered from—tetanus, malaria, sprue, typhus.†   (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • The students knew, without seeing gory pictures, what the dangers of tetanus were, and what they ought to be doing.†   (source)
    tetanus = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • When they were given a questionnaire later, all the students appeared to be well educated about the dangers of tetanus.†   (source)
  • In other words, what the tetanus intervention needed in order to tip was not an avalanche of new or additional information.†   (source)
  • Levanthal wanted to see what impact the different booklets had on the students' attitudes toward tetanus and their likelihood of getting a shot.†   (source)
  • In the "low fear" version, the language describing the risks of tetanus was toned down, and the photographs were omitted.†   (source)
  • If we didn't know about the Stickiness Factor, we probably would conclude that something was wrong with the way the booklet explained tetanus to the students.†   (source)
  • For some reason, the students had forgotten everything they had learned about tetanus, and the lessons they had been told weren't translating into action.†   (source)
  • Levanthal found that the hard sell — that trying to scare students into getting tetanus shots — didn't work, and what really worked was giving them a map they didn't need directing them to a clinic that they already knew existed.†   (source)
  • But those who were given the high-fear booklet were more convinced of the dangers of tetanus, more convinced of the importance of shots, and were more likely to say that they intended to get inoculated.†   (source)
  • We might wonder whether trying to scare them was the appropriate direction to take, whether there was a social stigma surrounding tetanus that inhibited students from admitting that they were at risk, or perhaps that medical care itself was intimidating to students.†   (source)
  • The students needed to know how to fit the tetanus stuff into their lives; the addition of the map and the times when the shots were available shifted the booklet from an abstract lesson in medical risk — a lesson no different from the countless other academic lessons they had received over their academic career — to a practical and personal piece of medical advice.†   (source)
  • Some of the students were given a " high fear" version, which described tetanus in dramatic terms and included color photographs of a child having a tetanus seizure and other tetanus victims with urinary catheters, tracheotomy wounds, and nasal tubes.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, they tended to shrug when patients died from ailments like measles or tetanus or tb.†   (source)
  • At the end of the first attack I discovered symptoms of tetanus; you confirmed my opinion.†   (source)
  • That the symptoms of tetanus and poisoning by vegetable substances are the same.†   (source)
  • It furnished excellent antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus, as well as the purest of official preparations, with the plainest and most official-looking labels on the swaggeringly modest brown bottles.†   (source)
  • The similarity in the symptoms of tetanus and poisoning by vegetable substances is so great, that were I obliged to affirm by oath what I have now stated, I should hesitate; I therefore repeat to you, I speak not to a magistrate, but to a friend.†   (source)
  • 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.
  • Get some more of that Antitetanus.†   (source)
  • There was nothing I could do about the cracked metacarpal bones or the puncture wound except apply an antiseptic wash and a poultice and pray against a tetanus infection.†   (source)
  • Smallpox.
    Typhoid.
    Tetanus.
    Yellow fever.   (source)
    tetanus = a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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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)
  • He had to go to the doctor and have a tetanus shot.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I didn't even need stitches then, just a tetanus shot.†   (source)
  • My parents immediately worried that this could jeopardize my chances of going to Beijing, so as an extra precaution they took me to the hospital to get my first tetanus shot, an expensive luxury.†   (source)
  • Howard Levanthal didn't redouble his efforts to terrify his students into getting a tetanus shot.†   (source)
  • The next morning she took him to the hospital for a tetanus shot and ointment for his cheek.†   (source)
  • After he finished with the sutures, the Iranian doctor wrote a prescription for a tetanus shot, handed it to Moody, and chattered out instructions.†   (source)
  • When's the last time you had a tetanus shot?†   (source)
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  • A half-hour later at Texas Children's Hospital, Norberto was given a tetanus shot after a doctor had cleaned and stitched his foot.†   (source)
  • At the hospital they took out shotgun pellets from her hand, but missed one in her head, and gave her a tetanus shot and sent her back home.†   (source)
  • Levanthal wanted to see if he could persuade a group of college seniors at Yale University to get a tetanus shot.†   (source)
  • There'd been an automobile accident somewhere near the Maine border, so Simon rated a low priority in the emergency room; that was fine with all of us, because the longer it took for Simon to get his tetanus shot and his stitches, the longer we would be away from the deer flies and the mosquitoes and the heat.†   (source)
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