Lockjaw is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LOCKJAW in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a form of tetanus
• (especially in non-medical use) tetanus
• spasm of the jaw muscles, causing the mouth to remain tightly closed, typically as a symptom of tetanus.
• an accent associated with the upper class of the north-eastern US, characterized by a supposed lack of movement of the mouth and jaw
• A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.
• an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages
• tetanus

Words related to LOCKJAW

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Words that contain LOCKJAW

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How to use LOCKJAW in a sentence

• His appearance on the Quarter-deck seemed to give every officer the lock-jaw.
• A fine young fellow, whose arm had been shattered, was just falling into the spasms of lockjaw.
• She was trying to give him rheumatism and toothache and lockjaw all at once.
• Well Al for some reason another everybody but he had the lockjaw and as far as we was concerned the fires would of all died out.
• Lockjaw succeeding amputation, he died in Brooklyn, July 22, 1869.
• The serum works on the same principle as the anti-tetanus serum used to prevent lockjaw.
• The worst symptoms of that strange affection were shown, even those of lockjaw.
• It has been employed in like manner with benefit for lock-jaw.
• The finger was nearly well when he suddenly discovered that, after all, the trouble might have been lock-jaw instead of blood-poisoning.
• Next morning I heard he had lock-jaw, and that the surgeon was to leave.
• He found that the cut on her hand had caused lockjaw, but said that there was no cause for alarm.
• Poor Bess! Ere another twenty-four hours had gone by, her sorrowful master was called away from the villa to see her die of lockjaw.
• The deaths of children from lockjaw following a Fourth of July celebration have often exceeded the total deaths in a Central American revolution.

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