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Definition of Muscle spasm
1. Noun. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Charley Horse, Charley-horse, Graphospasm, Writer's Cramp, Blepharospasm, Crick, Kink, Rick, Wrick, Myoclonus, Opisthotonos, Twitch, Twitching, Vellication, Tenesmus, Trismus
Medical Definition of Muscle spasm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscle Spasm
Literary usage of Muscle spasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1905)
"Over the dull area there is definite muscle spasm and great rigidity of the muscles,
... No definite mass can be felt beneath the area of muscle spasm. ..."
2. Asthma, Presenting an Exposition of the Nonpassive Expiration Theory by Orville Harry Brown (1917)
"... and that there was strong evidence of a marked contraction of the bronchiolar
muscles, the old theory of bronchiolar muscle spasm took on new life. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It is sometimes difficult to distinguish limitation of motion due to muscle spasm
from that due to osteophyte production or to other organic change in or ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1905)
"Over the dull area there is definite muscle spasm and great rigidity of the muscles,
... No definite mass can be felt beneath the area of muscle spasm. ..."
5. Asthma, Presenting an Exposition of the Nonpassive Expiration Theory by Orville Harry Brown (1917)
"... and that there was strong evidence of a marked contraction of the bronchiolar
muscles, the old theory of bronchiolar muscle spasm took on new life. ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"It is sometimes difficult to distinguish limitation of motion due to muscle spasm
from that due to osteophyte production or to other organic change in or ..."
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