Term: tetanus: an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages
Candidate hypernym: infection: the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms → 1
Candidate hypernym: accessory before the fact: a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration → 0
Candidate hypernym: now: the momentary present → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus lespedeza: genus of shrubs or herbs of tropical Asia and Australia and the eastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: vacation: the act of making something legally void → 0
Candidate hypernym: prairie smoke: North American perennial with hairy basal pinnate leaves and purple flowers and plume-tipped fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: adjustment: the act of adjusting something to match a standard → 0
Candidate hypernym: paraldehyde: a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent → 0
Candidate hypernym: nonverbal intelligence: intelligence that is manifested in the performance of tasks requiring little or no use of language → 0
Candidate hypernym: therapeutics: branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease → 0
Candidate hypernym: chloasma: a tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives → 0