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tetany (iou)



tetany noun. L19.
[French tetanie intermittent tetanus, from TETANUS: see -Y3.]
Medicine. A condition characterized by intermittent muscular spasms, esp. in the face and extremities, caused chiefly by deficiency of free calcium in the blood plasma.