Apatantraka: 6 definitions

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apatantraka (अपतन्त्रक).—[apagataṃ tantraṃ bhiṣajāmadhīnatā yatra kap Tv.] A kind of वातरोग (vātaroga), spasmodic contraction of the body or stomach; अपतन्त्रकातुरं नापतर्पयेत् (apatantrakāturaṃ nāpatarpayet) Suśr.

Derivable forms: apatantrakaḥ (अपतन्त्रकः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatantraka (अपतन्त्रक).—m.

(-kaḥ) Spasmodic contraction of the body, emprosthotonos. E. apa away, tantra will, kan aff.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatantraka (अपतन्त्रक):—[=apa-tantraka] [from apa-tantra] m. idem, [Suśruta]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apatantraka (अपतन्त्रक):—[tatpurusha compound](?) m.

(-kaḥ) (In Medicine.) One of the dis-eases of the vital air (see vātavyādhi), viz. a peculiar kind of spasmodic contraction of the body (tetanus?); described in the following manner: ‘if the vital air is deranged and rises from its situation, it produces pain in the chest, head and temples, convulses and bends the body; the patient is motionless, his eyes shut and fixed, he moans, he does not breathe or breathes with difficulty and has no consciousness; he feels well when the chest becomes free, otherwise he faints away’. E. tantri (tantra, denom. aff. ṇic), with apa, kṛt aff. ṇvul (?).

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