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Definition of Grimacing
1. grimace [v] - See also: grimace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimacing
Literary usage of Grimacing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous Children: Prevention and Management by Beverley Randolph Tucker (1916)
"The so-called habit of eye blinking and grimacing is usually due to disease and
a child so afflicted should be taken to a good physician. ..."
2. Occasional Lectures on the Practice of Medicine: Addressed Chiefly to the by Walter Butler Cheadle (1900)
"... AND THEIR TREATMENT Chorea—The origin of the name—Two forms—grimacing or ...
of the limbs, grimacing, and the like; and this is the important chorea, ..."
3. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette by St. Mary's Hospital (London, England) (1898)
"This grimacing Chorea is characterised by spasmodic contraction of certain ...
grimacing resembles true Chorea in that the movements are involuntary, ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1903)
"Irritative lesions in the Rolandic face-centers may set up grimacing spasms on the
... grimacing is the feature of all severe epileptic attacks that most ..."
5. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1905)
"In this condition grimacing appeared as a motor phenomenon, but this grimacing
was never of the nature of facial expression; when the neutral mood was ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"One sister, Mrs. H., whom 1 have had the opportunity of seeing, is constantly
grimacing, with uneasiness and choreic movements of the extremities. ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1901)
"One sister, Mrs. H., whom I have had the opportunity of seeing, is constantly
grimacing, with uneasiness and choreic movements of the extremities. ..."
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