a. (sb.) [f. TETAN-US + -OID.] Of the nature of, or resembling tetanus.
b. sb. A tetanoid spasm or attack.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xix. 231. Obscure tetanoid symptoms … disclosed themselves. Ibid., xxxii. 447. If one of these tetanoids should attack them on the road.
