Entasia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Entasia \En*ta"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See {Entasis}.] (Med.)
     Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease
     characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
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