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- English Word Testudinata Definition An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.
- English Word Testudinate Definition Alt. of Testudinated
- English Word Testudinated Definition Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
- English Word Testudineous Definition Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
- English Word Testudines Definition of Testudo
- English Word Testudo Definition A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
- English Word Testudo Definition A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
- English Word Testudo Definition A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
- English Word Testy Definition Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
- English Word Tetanic Definition Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
- English Word Tetanic Definition Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.
- English Word Tetanic Definition A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
- English Word Tetanin Definition 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.
- English Word Tetanization Definition The production or condition of tetanus.
- English Word Tetanize Definition To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.
- English Word Tetanoid Definition Resembling tetanus.
- English Word Tetanomotor Definition An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
- English Word Tetanus Definition A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
- English Word Tetanus Definition That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
- English Word Tetany Definition A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
- English Word Tetard Definition A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
- English Word Tetartohedral Definition Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.
- English Word Tetartohedrism Definition The property of being tetartohedral.
- English Word Tetaug Definition See Tautog.
- English Word Tetchiness Definition See Techiness.
- English Word Tetchy Definition See Techy.
- English Word Tete Definition A kind of wig; false hair.
- English Word Tete-a-tete Definition Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
- English Word Tete-a-tete Definition A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
- English Word Tete-a-tete Definition Private; confidential; familiar.