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S vs Tetanus - What's the difference?

s | tetanus |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun tetanus is

tetanus.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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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