单词 | muscle spasm |
释义 | muscle spasm (once / 155518 pages) n WORD FAMILY muscle spasm: muscle spasms USAGE EXAMPLESThe former is prescribed for the painful muscle spasms that occur in multiple sclerosis, while the latter is aimed at childhood seizures. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He now wears his own back and knee braces to relieve muscle spasms in his lower back. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) It was originally designed and widely used to treat muscle spasms. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) n a painful and involuntary muscular contraction Syn|Hypo|Hyper cramp, spasm charley horse, charley-horse a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise graphospasm, writer's crampmuscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil blepharospasmspasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye crick, kink, rick, wricka painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) myoclonusa clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group opisthotonossevere spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back twitch, twitching, vellicationa sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition tenesmuspainful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome trismusprolonged spasm of the jaw muscles tica local and habitual twitching especially in the face blepharismcondition in which a person blinks continuously fibrillationmuscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination fasciculationmuscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers symptom (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
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