tetany

medical sign consisting of the involuntary contraction of muscles
MedicalCondition disease Q511818
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tetany

Summary

tetany is a disease[1]. tetany draws 495 Wikipedia views per month (disease category, ranking #161 of 806).[2]

Key Facts

  • tetany's instance of is recorded as disease[3].
  • tetany's instance of is recorded as clinical sign[4].
  • tetany's instance of is recorded as symptom or sign[5].
  • tetany is a type of musculoskeletal system symptom[6].
  • tetany's Commons category is recorded as Tetany (medical sign)[7].
  • tetany's symptoms and signs is recorded as tetanic contraction[8].
  • tetany's has cause is recorded as hypocalcaemia[9].
  • tetany's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C114789[10].
  • tetany's health specialty is recorded as neurology[11].
  • tetany's health specialty is recorded as endocrinology[12].
  • tetany's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as calcium chloride[13].
  • tetany's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as calcium gluconate[14].
  • tetany's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as calcium gluceptate[15].
  • tetany's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001281[16].
  • tetany's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000619[17].
  • tetany's suggests the existence of is recorded as hypocalcaemia[18].

Why It Matters

tetany draws 495 Wikipedia views per month (disease category, ranking #161 of 806).[2] tetany has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] tetany is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Health specialty neurology, endocrinology
    Symptoms and signs tetanic contraction
    Instance of disease, clinical sign, symptom or sign
    Subclass of
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