different between cramp vs tetanus

English

Etymology

From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *kramp? (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æmp/
• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)

1. A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
   • August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington

     the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.

2. That which confines or contracts.

   Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance

   • 1782, William Cowper, Truth

     crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear

3. A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
4. A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)

1. (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
2. (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
   • 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)

     The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
   • 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

     But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side

4. (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

   You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.

   • 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck

     when the gout cramps my joints

5. To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
6. (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
   • 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics

     The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.

7. To form on a cramp.

Derived terms

• cramp someone's style

Translations

Adjective

cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)

1. (archaic) cramped; narrow

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• cramp at OneLook Dictionary Search

Manx

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

cramp

1. intricate, complex

Derived terms

• neuchramp

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Latin tetanus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (tétanos), from ????? (teín?, “I stretch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?t.?n.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?t.?n.?s/, /?t?t.n?s/

Noun

tetanus (usually uncountable, plural tetani)

1. (pathology, countable) A serious and often fatal disease caused by the infection of an open wound with the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium tetani, found in soil and the intestines and faeces of animals.

   Synonym: lockjaw

2. (physiology, countable) A state of muscle tension caused by sustained contraction arising from a rapid series of nerve impulses which do not allow the muscle to relax.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• tetanus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• attunes, nutates, tautens, unstate, untaste

Czech

Alternative forms

• tetan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?tanus]
• Hyphenation: te?ta?nus

Noun

tetanus m inan

1. tetanus (pathology)

Declension

Further reading

• tetanus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tetanus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tet?nus/, [?t?e?t??nus?]
• Rhymes: -et?nus
• Syllabification: te?ta?nus

Noun

tetanus

1. (pathology) tetanus

Declension

Synonyms

• jäykkäkouristus

Anagrams

• astunet, sattuen

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (tétanos); New Latin usage specific to the bacteria-caused disease.

Noun

tetanus m (genitive tetan?); second declension

1. A stiffness or spasm of the neck; tetanus
2. (New Latin) The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• tetanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tetanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tetanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette