tetanic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or causing tetany
2. 2.

   of or relating to or causing tetanus

Questions about tetanic

What does tetanic mean?

tetanic means "of or relating to or causing tetany". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tetanic?

tetanic has 3 syllables and divides as te-ta-nic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is tetanic a common word?

tetanic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.