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ŏpisthŏtŏnos , i, m., = ὀπισθότονος,
I.a disease in which the body is violently curved backwards, a form of lock-jaw (post-Aug.), Plin. 28, 12, 52, § 192; 23, 1, 24, § 48 (written as Greek, Cels. 4, 3, § 3).—
II. A disease that causes a person to fall backwards (eccl. Lat.), Hier. 3 Ep. ad Ephes. 6, 4.
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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 23.48
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.3
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