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What is the difference between unfused tetanus and fused tetanus?
Unfused tetanus-"the relaxation time between successive twitches will get shorter as the strength of contraction increases in amplitude." On the other hand, Fused tetanus-"Smooth, sustained muscle contraction."
What is a sustained muscle contraction called?
unfused (incomplete) tetanus
How can tetanus kill a person?
what tetanus does is cause painful, uncontrolled muscle spasms. essentially the body with have a huge muscle spasm that cannot be stopped and bones in the body can break such as the spine.
What are the effects of tetanus?
Tetanus, a nervous system infection, can cause muscles spasms. A common name for tetanus is lockjaw, becausethe jaw is often the first muscle group to cramp or spasm. Spasm can happen throughout the body and may cause muscle tears. If the spasm occur in the muscles around the lungs it can result in breathing problems. Beyond muscles spasms, other symptoms of tetanus include fever, excessive sweating, irritability, and drooling.
What has been acheived when the frequency of stimulation is so high that the muscle tracing shows fused peaks?
I believe the answer to be fused (complete) tetanus
Which disease is commonly called lockjaw?
trismus, a pathological condition in which the mouth is held shut by sustained spasm of the masseter (jaw) muscle, often observed in cases of tetanus
What you call when a muscle contracts involuntarily?
cardiac and smooth
What massage technique can help relieve muscle spasm?
The recommended way of relieving a muscle spasm is a muscle-energy technique called reciprocal inhibition. What you do is have the person with the spasm contract the antagonist muscle(s) related to the ones in spasm. Works like a charm.
How can you use tetanus in a sentence?
Everybody has tetanus which is a muscle
What is loss of normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?
What is loss of the normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?
What is a sentence for spasm?
He ran so far his leg muscle went into a spasm.
What triggers a spasm?
a muscle spasm occurs when the muscles have been tense for a long period of time and then you make a sudden movement and it causes it to spasm. I have suffered with muscle spasm's in my back for about a year now due to a back injury and this is what my doctor has told me, it can be treated with diazapam to relax the muscle's.
