Lockjaw

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Lockjaw can refer to any of the following:

Medical conditions and diseases

• Trismus, a pathological condition in which the mouth is held shut by sustained spasm of the masseter (jaw) muscle, often observed in cases of tetanus.
• Tetanus, an infectious disease of the central nervous system.
• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction or TMD, often erroneously called TMJ

Arts and literature

• Lockjaw (comics), a character from Marvel Comics' Inhumans
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, an American jazz saxophonist
• Lockjaw (EP), a 2013 EP by Flume and Chet Faker

In sociology and linguistics

• Locust Valley Lockjaw, an upper-class American accent.