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Botulinum vs Tetanus - What's the difference?

botulinum | tetanus |

As nouns the difference between botulinum and tetanus

is that botulinum is an anaerobic soil bacterium, clostridium botulinum , that secretes the toxin botulin while tetanus is tetanus.

botulinum

English

Noun

(-)
  • An anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum , that secretes the toxin botulin

    • tetanus

    English

    (wikipedia tetanus)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (pathology, countable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium , found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.
  • (physiology, countable) A state of muscle tension caused by sustained contraction arising from a rapid series of nerve impulses which do not allow the muscle to relax.
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=January 16, Pierre-Marie Lledo et al., Postsynaptic Membrane Fusion and Long-Term Potentiation, Science citation
    • , passage=We first saturated LTP in one pathway by applying repetitive tetani that had no effect on the control pathway (Fig. 4 B). }}

    Synonyms

    * (disease caused by Clostridium tetani) lockjaw

    Derived terms

    * tetanal * tetanic * tetany

    Anagrams

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