a. [f. TETAN-US + -FORM.] = TETANOID.
1887. A. M. Brown, Anim. Alkaloids, 153. In the common and ordinary form the dominant nervous factor is the delirium; in the cerebrospinal it is the tetaniform.
1899. Allbutts Syst. Med., VII. 531. Tetaniform tonic convulsions.