Tetany

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Tetany is variable intermittent muscle contraction.

Causes

Stricnine poisoning.
Hypocalcemia
- For example, due to:
  - Parturition
  - Hypothyroidism
Glycine disorders, in:
- Humans
  - Knowns as startle disease or hyperexplexia.
  - Causes sudden contraction of primarily antigravity muscles
- Arabian horses

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