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Spasm Common

Spasm has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

2

(pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)

3

A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.

Verb
1

To produce and undergo a spasm.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
symptom constriction
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
charley horse writer's cramp blepharospasm crick myoclonus opisthotonos twitch tenesmus trismus bronchospasm cardiospasm heave laryngismus
Rhyming Words
asm casm wasm rasm jasm gasm icasm lrasm chasm plasm phasm miasm empasm yogasm orgasm akoasm idiasm chiasm acouasm fantasm
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