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Definition of "trismus" []

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "trismus" in a sentence
  • "From this it appears that the trismus is the trismus: but he observes with the greatest modesty that if science knows that the trismus is the trismus, it is entirely ignorant of the cause of this nervous affection, which comes and goes, appears and disappears -- "and," he adds, "we have decided that it is altogether nervous.""
  • "For traumatic trismus, use the B D current, of vigorous force."
  • "This is substantially the same thing as _trismus_, except that it extends to other parts, and often to nearly all the muscles of the organism."