tetanize. [tet´ah-nīz] to stimulate a muscle at progressively higher frequencies until successive contractions fuse and cannot be distinguished from one another.

What is the meaning of Tetanizing?

tet·a·nize

(tet'ă-nīz), To stimulate a muscle by a rapid series of stimuli so that the individual muscular responses (contractions) are fused into a sustained contraction; to cause tetanus (q.v. [2]) in a muscle.

What is a Tetanizing stimulus?

A tetanic contraction (also called tetanized state, tetanus, or physiologic tetanus, the latter to differentiate from the disease called tetanus) is a sustained muscle contraction evoked when the motor nerve that innervates a skeletal muscle emits action potentials at a very high rate.