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(medicine) Sustained tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened, as produced by various diseases. quotations examples
[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 […] .
1786 August 16, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana