apatantraka

E. apa away, tantra will, kan aff.

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 (?).

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