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6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
originBorrowed from French tétanie, from New Latin tetania.
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