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Involving sustained muscle contraction rather than separate brief twitches.
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The muscle entered a tetanic contraction.
The stimulation produced tetanic tension.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more tetanic; superlative most tetanic where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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