Vi fant 8 definisjoner av spasm på engelsk.
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| spasm - a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | ||
| cramp, muscle spasm | ||
| symptom anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence | ||
| charley-horse, charley horse a muscular cramp (especially in the thigh or calf) following vigorous exercise | ||
| graphospasm, writer's cramp muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil | ||
| blepharospasm spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye | ||
| wrick, crick, rick, kink English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004) | ||
| myoclonus a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group | ||
| opisthotonos severe spasm in which the back arches and the head bends back and heels flex toward the back | ||
| twitch, twitching, vellication a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | ||
| tenesmus painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome | ||
| spasm - (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | ||
| constriction the action or process of compressing | ||
| pathology the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases | ||
| bronchospasm a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis | ||
| cardiospasm a spasm of the cardiac sphincter (between the esophagus and the stomach); if the cardiac sphincter does not relax during swallowing the passage of food into the stomach is obstructed | ||
| retch, heave throwing something heavy (with great effort); "he gave it a mighty heave"; "he was not good at heaving passes" | ||
