opisthotonos

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases.

   “[T]he Actors struggled & bounced, and sprunted as if in Convulsions; like Patients under the Influence of a Disease called in Jamaica the Opisthotonos or dry Gripes […].”