Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
entasis , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
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- noun medicine
tonic spasm ; any disease characterized by tonic spasms, such astetanus ortrismus
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek. See entasis.
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