antitetanicadj.n.
Med.
A. adj.
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Good against tetanus or lockjaw.
B. n.
A medicine so used.
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antitetanic1875
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 233 It even acts as an antitetanic in the poisoning of codeia and of morphia.
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