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What do you mean by tetany

What do you mean by tetany?

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The permanence of a muscle fiber beneath a continuous state of contraction by temporal summation is termed as tetany (example:  the clinical situation of patients contaminated by the toxin of tetanus bacteria). Tetany ends whenever all available energy for contraction is spent or whenever the stimulus ceases.

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