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Definition
a bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object; causes a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed; prevented by the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine and by subsequent booster shots every 10 years
- Mud head to foot. Cut your hand open. Lockjaw. They make
you kaputt, Leopoldleben.Episode 15 — Circe (5% in)
lockjaw = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
There are no more uses of "lockjaw" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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