If they are searching into lockjaw (tetanus) or glanders, they naturally select horses.
This lockjaw trait is popularly known as the death grip, and is essential in the fungus's fitness.
Lockjaw is tricked into eating an explosive-laden human brain.
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.
And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw, she said.
As the infection progresses, muscle spasms develop in the jaw (thus the name "lockjaw") and elsewhere in the body.
Lockjaw is convinced to help him on the mission.
Lockjaw is able to escape and becomes separated from his city.
