Tetanus vs Fatigue - What's the difference?
tetanus | fatigue |
(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.
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A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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A menial task, especially in the military.
(engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
* 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
(intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
As nouns the difference between tetanus and fatigue
is that tetanus is a serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium species: Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals while fatigue is a weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.As a verb fatigue is
to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.tetanus
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(wikipedia tetanus)Noun
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Synonyms
* (disease caused by Clostridium tetani) lockjawDerived terms
* tetanal * tetanic * tetanyAnagrams
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Noun
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- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.