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CIDE DICTIONARY

tetanin

CIDE DICTIONARY

tetaninn. 
     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.  [1913 Webster]

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