Path. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἐμπροσθότονος drawn forward and stiffened, f. ἔμπροσθεν before + τόνος a stretching.] ‘A condition in tetanus in which the body is drawn forwards by excessive action of the anterior muscles of the trunk’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1657. Phys. Dict., Emprostotonos, a kind of cramp.
1685. J. Cooke, Marrow of Chirurgery (ed. 4), 498. When the Body, Head and Neck, is drawn forwards, called Emprosthotonos.
1775. Mackenzie, in Phil. Trans., LXVII. 7. A person in the emprosthotonos.
1871. Sir T. Watson, Lect. Physic (ed. 5), I. 559. The only example of emprosthotonos which I ever saw.
