A rare medical condition involving spasms or rigidity of the throat muscles, causing difficulty with speech or swallowing.
From Latin guttur (throat) plus tetany (from Greek tetanos 'stretched, stiff'), a medical term for involuntary muscle contractions.
Gutturotetany is such a specialized medical term that even many doctors have never encountered it—it describes a condition so rare that modern medicine has largely replaced it with more specific diagnostic categories.
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