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tetanise

tetanise is the alternative form of tetanize.

Meaning of tetanize

Verb

tetanize (third-person singular simple present tetanizes, present participle tetanizing, simple past and past participle tetanized)

  1. (transitive) To throw (a muscle etc.) into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in.
    • Thus, on tetanizing an only slightly irritable nerve, applied to the deriving cushions by its longitudinal and transverse sections very near to the exciting electrodes, with the alternating currents of the Inversor arranged so that its closing value in the unit of time is brought as near as...1868, Charles E. Morgan, Electro Physiology and Therapeutics

Forms of tetanise

third-person singular presenttetanises
present participletetanising
past participletetanised
pasttetanised

Questions about tetanise

What is tetanise the alternative form of?
Tetanise is the alternative form of tetanize.

Words near tetanise in the dictionary

  1. tetanigenous
  2. tetanin
  3. tetanine
  4. tetanisation
  5. tetanisations
  6. tetanise
  7. tetanised
  8. tetanises
  9. tetanising
  10. tetanism
  11. tetanization

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