The effect of the "t" is a curse-disease, usually indicated by an immediate reaction to administration of the poison, like fainting, swelling and blackening of the tongue, or lockjaw.
There, in 1866, he died of lockjaw, a result of a bar fight.
Lockjaw is able to escape and becomes separated from his city.
Lockjaw is convinced to help him on the mission.
As the infection progresses, muscle spasms develop in the jaw (thus the name "lockjaw") and elsewhere in the body.
And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw, she said.
The shorter nerves are the first to be inhibited, which leads to the characteristic early symptoms in the face and jaw, "risus sardonicus" and lockjaw.
Lockjaw is tricked into eating an explosive-laden human brain.
