a disease in which the muscles, especially the jaw muscles, become stiff, caused by bacteria entering the body through cuts or wounds Topics Illnessc2破伤风 Oxford Collocations DictionaryTetanus is used before these nouns:- injection
- jab
- shot
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin, from Greek tetanos ‘muscular spasm’, from teinein ‘to stretch’.