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Definition: Tetanin
Tetanin
\Tet"a*nin\, n. (Physiol. Chem.)
A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the
agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who
has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus
as one of its prominent effects.
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