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TETANIC

Definitions: TETANIC

TETANIC

Adjective

1. Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

2. Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.

Noun

1. A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: TETANIC

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

Having the characteristics of, or relating to tetanus. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TETANIC

English words defined with "TETANIC": Thebaine. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TETANIC

"TETANIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TETANIC" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TETANIC

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TETANIC": post-tetanic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TETANIC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

la martínez roxana tetanic

4

martínez roxana tetanic

2
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Modern Translations: TETANIC

Language Translations for "TETANIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tetanosi. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كزازي متعلق بداء الكزاز. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

причиняващ тетанус, подобен на тетанус. (various references)

   

Danish

  

tetanisk. (various references)

   

French

  

tétanique (tetanus). (various references)

   

German

  

tetanisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τετανικόσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

merevgörcsös. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tetanico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etanictay

   

Portuguese

  

tetânico. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

столбнячный (tetanal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tetánico, teta/nico. (various references)

   

Thai

  

เกี่ยวกับโรคบา"ทะยัก. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стовбняковий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TETANIC

Derivations

Words beginning with "TETANIC": tetanically, tetanics. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TETANIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nictate.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t"

-1 letter: acetin, cattie, centai, enatic, intact.

-2 letters: actin, antic, attic, enact, entia, tacet, tacit, taint, tecta, tenia, tinct, tinea, titan.

-3 letters: acne, ante, anti, cain, cane, cant, cate, cent, cine, cite, etic, etna, neat, nett, nice, nite, tace, tact, tain, tate, teat, tent, tine, tint.

-4 letters: ace, act, ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, att, can, cat, eat, eta, ice, nae, net, nit, tae, tan, tat, tea, ten, tet, tic, tie, tin, tit.

-5 letters: ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: entastic, excitant, interact, nictated, nictates, pittance, taconite, tenacity, tetanics, tunicate.

 

+2 letters: authentic, carnotite, cattiness, certainty, crepitant, emittance, excitants, facetting, injectant, interacts, intestacy, intricate, nictitate, pectinate, pittances, quittance, scantiest, tacitness, taconites, tunicated, tunicates, ventifact.

 

+3 letters: actinolite, admittance, ancientest, anecdotist, anesthetic, anthracite, anticipate, antiemetic, antierotic, antipoetic, antiseptic, antithetic, austenitic, backbitten, cantatrice, cantillate, carnotites, catenating, catenation, cathecting, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, chattiness, clattering, constative, constipate, continuate, cunctative, detoxicant, detracting, detraction, emittances, eructating, eructation, excitation, extracting, extraction, fianchetti, fianchetto, immittance, inactivate, injectants, intactness, interacted, intercaste, intoxicate, licentiate, nictitated, nictitates, pentatonic, psittacine, quittances, ratcheting, recitation, remittance, retracting, retraction, sanctities, scattering, snatchiest, spectating, tenacities, tetracaine, trajecting, trajection, unathletic, vaticinate, ventifacts.

 

+4 letters: acceptation, acetylating, acetylation, acquittance, actinolites, actinometer, actinometry, admittances, affectation, altercating, altercation, anaesthetic, anecdotists, anesthetics, anthracites, anticathode, anticipated, anticipates, anticruelty, antiemetics, antipyretic, antiseptics, cantatrices, cantillated, cantillates, catenations, cattinesses, cementation, centralists, centripetal, certainties, clarinetist, coattending, coattesting, confutative, connotative, constatives, constipated, constipates, containment, contaminate, continental, contractile, contractive, contrariety, contrastive, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, curtailment, decantation, delectation, denticulate, detoxicants, detractions, elicitation, eructations, esthetician, excitations, expectation, extractions, extricating, extrication, fianchettos, fractionate, gesticulant, immittances, inactivated, inactivates, inauthentic, interactant, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, intercalate, intercostal, intercrater, intestacies, intoxicated, intoxicates, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, licentiates, martensitic, mentalistic, metacentric, metafiction, metagenetic, metrication, natriuretic, necessitate, nonathletic, outcheating, outdistance, pacesetting, pantheistic, parenthetic, pectination, pertinacity, pontificate, precipitant, psittacines, ratiocinate, reattaching, reattacking, recantation, recitations, reluctating, reluctation, remittances, retractions, retroacting, retroaction, scatterings, scintillate, semanticist, stenobathic, tacitnesses, telecasting, teratogenic, tetanically, tetracaines, thiocyanate, tonetically, trajections, transecting, transection, tumefaction, typecasting, unaesthetic, unauthentic, uncertainty, vaticinated, vaticinates, wainscotted.

 

+5 letters: accentuating, accentuation, acceptations, acetonitrile, acetylations, acquittances, actinometers, actinometric, actinomycete, aesthetician, affectations, affectionate, altercations, anaesthetics, anecdotalist, anelasticity, anthelmintic, anticathodes, anticreative, antidiabetic, antielectron, antientropic, antigenicity, antihysteric, antimagnetic, antiparticle, antipathetic, antipyretics, antithetical, authenticate, authenticity, carburetting, cementations, centralistic, centralities, chastisement, chattinesses, clarinetists, clarinettist, clatteringly, commentating, committeeman, conglutinate, consultative, containments, contaminated, contaminates, contestation, continentals, continuative, contractible, contradicted, counterstain, creationists, crepitations, curtailments, deactivating, deactivation, decantations, decapitating, decapitation, delectations, denticulated, detoxicating, detoxication, disinfectant, educationist, effectuating, effectuation, elicitations, encrustation, enthusiastic, estheticians, exanthematic, excogitating, excogitation, exercitation, expectations, extrications, fantasticate, fantasticoes, felicitating, felicitation, fianchettoed, fractionated, fractionates, inactivities, inarticulate, incapacitate, indoctrinate, inelasticity, inexactitude, inspectorate, intactnesses, intellectual, interactants, interactions, intercalated, intercalates, intercoastal, intercostals, interfaculty, mercantilist, metacentrics, metafictions, metrications, mutagenicity, natriuretics, necessitated, necessitates, negativistic, neutralistic, nonactivated, nonaesthetic, nonarchitect, nonstrategic, obstetrician, outdistanced, outdistances, pancreatitis, pathogenetic, pectinations, petrifaction, placentation, pneumaticity, pontificated, pontificates, postaccident, practitioner, precipitants, privatdocent, putrefaction, ratiocinated, ratiocinates, reactivating, reactivation, recalcitrant, recantations, recontacting, reluctations, reticulating, reticulation, retinotectal, retroactions, scatteration, scatterbrain, scatteringly, scintillated, scintillates, semanticists, stupefaction, technicality, technocratic, tectonically, tetracycline, theoretician, thiocyanates, tradescantia, transections, transfecting, transfection, trichopteran, trochanteric, tumefactions, unattractive, unchastities, uncultivated, undistracted, unsystematic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TETANIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 45 54 41 4E 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01000101 01010100 01000001 01001110 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0054 0041 004E 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54395435484337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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