Cramp vs Tetanus - What's the difference?
cramp | tetanus |
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
* Sir T. More
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
* L'Estrange
* Cowper
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.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To prohibit movement or expression.
* Layard
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
* Ford
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
* Burke
To form on a cramp.
(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
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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)- The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
- A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
Derived terms
* brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's crampVerb
(en verb)- You're cramping my style.
- The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- when the gout cramps my joints
- The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- to cramp boot legs
References
* ----tetanus
English
(wikipedia tetanus)Noun
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