亚洲网紅露点

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lockjaw

[ lok-jaw ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.


lockjaw

/ 藞濒蓲办藢诲萧蓴藧 /

noun

  1. pathol a nontechnical name for trismus tetanus
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of lockjaw1

First recorded in 1795鈥1805; lock 1 + jaw 1
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If someone tells you 鈥淚 don鈥檛 like eating MSG because I get headaches鈥 or 鈥淚 get lockjaw鈥 or whatever symptoms they have, then don鈥檛 say they are racist or imagining it.

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Stewart knew that taking on 鈥淪pencer鈥 would be a challenge, and in the days leading up to the shoot, she even developed lockjaw as she ceaselessly practiced her British accent.

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His voice was nasal, garrulous, W. C. Fields with a bad case of Long Island lockjaw.

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鈥淵ou want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?鈥

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It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days later.

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