[n. of action f. TETANIZE: cf. F. tétanisation.] The production of tetanus or tetanic contraction in a muscle.
1881. Tyndall, Floating-Matter of Air, ii. 102. He found the rapidity of putrefaction to correspond with the violence of the tetanization.
1887. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychol., iii. § 4. 106. The application of rapidly repeated shocks to the nerve, such as would produce ‘tetanic contraction’ of the muscle, may be called the ‘tetanization of a nerve.’
