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opisthotonos

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted hinoooopssttStarts with OEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back

Word origin

From Latin opisthotonus, and its source, Ancient Greek ὀπισθότονος (opisthótonos), corresponding to opistho- + tonus (“muscle tension”).

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  • [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 […].

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