- A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally
from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of
the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected,
it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from
the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. - That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of
continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of
induction shocks.
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