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Cramp vs Tetanus - What's the difference?

cramp | tetanus |

As nouns the difference between cramp and tetanus

is that cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled while tetanus is tetanus.

As a verb cramp

is (of a muscle) to contract painfully and uncontrollably.

cramp

English

(wikipedia cramp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  • * Sir T. More
    • The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
  • That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
  • * Cowper
    • crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

    • Derived terms

    * brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's cramp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  • To prohibit movement or expression.
    • You're cramping my style.
  • * Layard
    • The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
    • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
  • * Ford
    • when the gout cramps my joints
  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
  • (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  • * Burke
    • The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
  • To form on a cramp.
    • to cramp boot legs

    References

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    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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