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Trismus

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Noun
  1. 1
    The inability to open the mouth normally, typically as a result of disease. uncountable
  2. 2
    prolonged spasm of the jaw muscles wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin trismus, from Ancient Greek τρισμός (trismós, “a grinding, rasping, scream”), from Ancient Greek τρίζω (trízō).

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