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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
opisthotonos is a noun meaning "severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back". It carries one recorded sense.
severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for opisthotonos come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.