how to pronounce tetanus

/ˈtɛt.ən.əs/

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tetanus is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of tetanus in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… diphtheria polio and tetanus were …”

meaning of tetanus

Tetanus is a disease caused by a bacterial infection.

tetanus frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word tetanus occurs in english on average 1.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tetanus can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tetanus can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;