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TETANUS TOXIN [1 record]

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Record 1 1989-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
OBS

tetanus. An infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles.

OBS

toxin. Any poison produced by an organism, characterized by antigenicity in certain animals and high molecular weight and including the bacterial toxins that are the causative agents of tetanus, diphtheria, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
OBS

toxine. Substance toxique élaborée par un organisme vivant, en particulier par les micro-organismes pathogènes, et agissant comme antigène (en provoquant la production d'anticorps).

OBS

tétanique. Propre au tétanos, de la nature du tétanos.

OBS

tétanos. Maladie infectieuse, inoculable, commune à l'homme et à plusieurs espèces animales, due à une toxi-infection des centres nerveux par la toxine de Clostridium (ou Plectridium) tétanie (bacille de Nicolaier et Kitasato). (...) Elle se caractérise par des contractions toniques de la musculature striée, par une hyperexcitabilité réflexe.

Spanish

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