Letter T

Trismus

Inability to open the mouth fully.

This may be due to spasm of the jaw muscles and be a symptom of tetanus (lockjaw).

Or it may be due to abnormally short jaw muscles, as in the trismus-pseudocamptodactyly syndrome

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