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a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object; prevented by the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine and by subsequent booster shots every 10 years

The Masai guide said members of his tribe have a gap cut between their front teeth so that nutrients cam 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

Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw and the death grip.

tetanus = a deadly bacterial infection that results in muscle spasms whose symptoms include locking the jaw tightly closed

Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw.

tetanus = a deadly bacterial infection that results in muscle spasms whose symptoms include locking the jaw tightly closed

Two fellows die of tetanus.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

tetanus = a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound

Jodie had told her about a boy who stepped on a rusty nail and didn't get a tetanus shot.
Delia Owens -- Where the Crawdads Sing

tetanus = for a bacteria that causes severe spasms (also called lockjaw) which can be fatal

There is an army medical lance-corporal with it who sticks an anti-tetanus needle into our chests.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

tetanus = a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound

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.
Dori Sanders -- Clover
Like that baby born blue out of that woman with tetanus this morning.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
At the end of the first attack I discovered symptoms of tetanus; you confirmed my opinion.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"You need a tetanus shot," Roy said.
Carl Hiassen -- Hoot
A half-hour later at Texas Children's Hospital, Norberto was given a tetanus shot after a doctor had cleaned and stitched his foot.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
Levanthal wanted to see if he could persuade a group of college seniors at Yale University to get a tetanus shot.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
That child has tetanus and will die.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
He also said the salt water was good for healing the pain and preventing tetanus.
Ishmael Beah -- A Long Way Gone
That's nothing compared to some of the other diseases she says she's suffered from—tetanus, malaria, sprue, typhus.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
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.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
When's the last time you had a tetanus shot?
James Patterson -- The Angel Experiment
Carla's mother thought I should go to the hospital for stitches and a tetanus shot.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
I didn't even need stitches then, just a tetanus shot.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
After he finished with the sutures, the Iranian doctor wrote a prescription for a tetanus shot, handed it to Moody, and chattered out instructions.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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