(n.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several years' observations with the muscle relaxant Mydeton (150 mg coated tablet) in the treatment of lockjaw of different etiology have been discussed.
(2) All of these patients with tetanus on admission showed typical features, with the most common initial complaints being lockjaw and dysphagia (82.6%).
(3) Keep Belfast festive I watched ’71, Yann Demange’s thriller about a British soldier stranded in the streets of Troubles-era Belfast, with a mixture of lockjaw tension and vague recognition.
(4) The tumor had created a fusion with the ipsilateral coronoid process of the mandible, thus causing lockjaw.
(5) Like the purified defibrinating fraction("Arvin") of the venom of the Malayan pit viper (Agkistrodon rehodostoma), which is currently being used and evaluated as an anticoagulant, the thereapeutic possibilities of a purified neurotoxin that could produce a flaccid paralysis lasting two days or more were anticipated well before 1891 by Lauterer, who, as a result of his experiments, "injected viper poison...under the skin of a boy suffering from tentanus treaumaticus (lockjaw) and slackened the muscles of the whole body by it."
(6) Edward Fox is something of a Flemingesque dreamboat, with his flaxen locks, his aristocratic lockjaw and his subaltern's bearing (I imagine Fox as Freddie Forsyth's idealised version of himself ).
Trismus
Definition:
(n.) The lockjaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trismus may be a complication from local anesthesia.
(2) Other factors of importance were: an increase in the anterior depth of the mandible; a reduction in the distance between the occiput and the spinous process of C1, and to a lesser extent the C1-C2 interspinous gap; and reduced mobility of the mandible associated with temporo-mandibular joint arthritis or trismus.
(3) They are expressed clinically by xerostomia, trismus, radiation dermatitis, nutritional stomatitis, and dentofacial malformation.
(4) The size of the swelling was not related to the degree of trismus or postoperative pain.
(5) After trismus, complex fracture, serious maxillofacial malformations and wide neoplasia, classic nose--orotracheal intubation through direct laryngoscopy may turn out difficulty.
(6) The most common initial symptom was local swelling, which was followed in order of frequency by spontaneous pain, paraesthesia of the lower lip, discomfort, loosening of teeth and trismus.
(7) This review outlines the aetiology and diagnosis of clinically evident jaw trismus.
(8) The results we got show that trismus is an odontologist's daily problèm.
(9) Conclusions that can be drawn from this case are the following: a diagnosis of tetanus should be considered in any case of unexplained trismus; aggressive treatment of the immunologic deficit by antitoxin should be instituted along with a course of active immunization; and aggressive symptomatic treatment should be started.
(10) Frequency distributions of trismus and pain are given.
(11) Unfortunately several radiation-induced side effects may occur including mucositis, hyposalivation, radiation caries, trismus and osteoradionecrosis.
(12) Sucralfate significantly lowered postoperative throat pain, otalgia, and trismus.
(13) These lesions progress slowly and may eventually result in complete and irreducible trismus.
(14) A polysystemic disorder was observed in three related English Springer Spaniel dogs that demonstrated regurgitation from an early age, slowly progressive temporal muscle atrophy with partial trismus, and less pronounced generalized skeletal muscle atrophy.
(15) In one case of motor and sensory paralysis after the extirpation of a meningioma of the cerebellopontine angle, intensive paradox activity was observed, without trismus.
(16) It was difficult to estimate the amount of tissue area affected by the abscessed phlegmon because of severe trismus.
(17) Tolerance of high dose metoclopramide was good except in 3 patients who left the study because of restlessness and trismus.
(18) Thus the jaw extension appliance used is helpful both in the diagnosis and treatment of severe trismus.
(19) Relief from pain and trismus was obtained and normal swallowing was established following radical surgery.
(20) Cephalic tetanus, may be misleading initially because of the presence of cranial nerve palsies and the absence of classic signs such as trismus and risus sardonicus.