n clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis
But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation.
Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis.
This substance from oxen glands will cure the serious condition known as parathyroid tetany, which is due to an insufficiency of the parathyroid internal secretion.
Grass tetany threat is right around the corner Early spring is the primary time that farmers experience problems and loss of livestock to the forage-related disorder known as grass tetany, grass staggers, lactation tetany or hypomagnesemia.
Feb. 17, 2014 - The Danville Advocate-Messenger