v. [f. TETAN-US + -IZE: so F. tétaniser.] trans. To produce tetanus or tetanic spasms in. Hence Tetanized ppl. a., Tetanizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1849. Noad, Electricity (ed. 3), 473. They then assume the tetanized condition, during which their limbs become completely stiffened.
1855. Fraser’s Mag., LI. 544. The common crab,… finding itself a prisoner, draws in its legs rigid, as if tetanized by the touch.
1874. Garrod & Baxter, Mat. Med. (1880), 200. As a tetanising agent, it is inferior to strychnia and brucia.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 819. A double electrode being applied to the posterior wall of the larynx so as to tetanise the interarytenoid.
