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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(medicine) Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases..
[T]he Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions; like Patients under the Influence of a Disease called in Jamaica the Opisthotonos or dry Gripes […].
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Opisthotonos means (medicine) Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases..
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[T]he Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions; like Patients under the Influence of a Disease called in Jamaica the Opisthotonos or dry Gripes […].
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