Sentence example with the word 'lockjaw'

lockjaw

abdominal epilepsy, black fever, deer fly fever, erysipelas, hookworm, loa loa, parotitis, rheumatic fever, splenic fever, trench mouth, yellow jack

Definition n. an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds

Last update: July 17, 2015


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In the first place, the intuition of causality does not require will at all, because we often perceive one bodily member pressing another involuntarily; a man suffering from lockjaw neither wills nor can avoid feeling the pressure of his upper and lower jaws against one another.   [Please select]

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Infantry's kept home from school to-day--measles, I reckon, or maybe it's lockjaw.   [Please select]

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Hawkins himself was wounded, but, 'thanks be to God,' escaped the lockjaw.   [Please select]

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And when he goes to the Tynwald Coort there, it'll be lockjaw and the measles with some of them.'   [Please select]

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To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead for you, as some person is going to betray your confidence.   [Please select]

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For a woman to see others with lockjaw, foretells her friends will unconsciously detract from her happiness by assigning her unpleasant tasks.   [Please select]

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Hemorrhage, either primary or secondary, tetanus (or lockjaw), abscesses, hernia (or rupture), gangrene, and peritonitis are the most serious complications that follow castration.   [Please select]

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Now, old girl, if you keep openin' of your mouth an' eyes at that rate you'll git lockjaw, an' never be able to go to sleep no more.   [Please select]

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