释义 |
tetanization|tɛtənaɪˈzeɪʃən| [n. of action f. tetanize: cf. F. tétanisation.] The production of tetanus or tetanic contraction in a muscle.
1881Tyndall Floating Matter of Air ii. 102 He found the rapidity of putrefaction to correspond with the violence of the tetanization. 1887G. T. Ladd Physiol. Psychol. iii. §4. 106 The application of rapidly repeated shocks to the nerve, such as would produce ‘tetanic contraction’ of the muscle, may be called the ‘tetanization of a nerve’. |