Tetany

May refer to:

Grass Tetany

• 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