Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pleurothotonus \Pleu`ro*thot"o*nus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. pleyro`qen
   from the side + to`nos a stretching.] (Med.)
   A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally.
   --Quain. --Dunglison.