As a firefighter I do everything from fight grass fires, house fires, rubbish fires, car fires, anything that can catch on fire weâd be called for it. We go to medical calls, any time ambulances are called out we go to it. We do everything from heart attacks to small injuries to car wrecks.
I had a rear molar worked on 2 weeks ago, and now I can't open my jaw enough to place anything larger that my pincky finger into it. Went to the oral surgeon yesterday, he told me I had trismus, caused by a spasm in my muscle of the jaw due to the needle from the novacain. His suggestion to increase how far my mouth will open, start with 7 tongue depressors, insert between my teeth, and add a new one everyday until I can get 27 in there.
trismus definition, trismus meaning | English dictionary. Search also in: Web News Encyclopedia Images. trismus. n (Pathol) the state or condition of being unable to open the mouth because of sustained contractions of the jaw muscles, caused by a form of tetanus, (Nontechnical name) lockjaw. (C17: from New Latin, from Greek trismos a grinding) â¦ trismic adj. English Collins Dictionary - English Definition & Thesaurus.