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"Tetany" Definition

noun

An abnormal condition characterized by periodic painful muscular spasms and tremors, caused by faulty calcium metabolism and associated with diminished function of the parathyroid glands.
A condition of physiological calcium imbalance marked by tonic spasm of muscles and often associated with deficient parathyroid secretion.

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