‖ pleurothotonos, -us Path.
(plʊərəʊˈθɒtənɒs, -əs)
Often erron. pleurosth- (after emprosthotonos, opisthotonos).
[mod.L., f. Gr. πλευρόθεν from the side (f. πλευρά side) + -τονος stretched, stretching.]
Tetanic bending of the body to one side.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 263 The pleurosthotonos of authors of a later date. 1842 Dunglison Med. Lex., Pleurothotonos. 1874 Carpenter Ment. Phys. App. (1879) 715 An immediate pleurosthotonos, or bending of the body to one side. 1878 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 318 To this original division Boenecken afterwards added another form pleurothotonos (or tetanus lateralis). |