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Definition: Muscle Spasm |
Muscle SpasmNoun1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Muscle SpasmSynonyms: cramp (n), spasm (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Muscle Spasm |
| English words defined with "muscle spasm": crick ♦ rick ♦ wrick. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "muscle spasm": Chlormezanone. (references) |
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Health | Advantage can be taken of this neuromuscular blocking effect to alleviate muscle spasm due to excessive neural activity of central origin or to weaken a muscle for therapeutic purposes. (references) | |
Muscle spasm, joint stiffness, restricted mobility, rapid hair and nail growth, and vasospasm (a constriction of the blood vessels) that affects color and temperature of the skin can also occur. (references) | ||
The conservative, reversible treatments described are useful for temporary relief of pain and muscle spasm -- they are not "cures" for TMD. If symptoms continue over time or come back often, check with your doctor. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "muscle spasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | spasme musculaire. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | usclemay asmspay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-m-m-p-s-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: campuses, capsules, scaleups, upscales. | |
-4 letters: almuces, ampules, assumes, capless, capsule, classes, clauses, macules, mescals, muscles, mussels, passels, plusses, pummels, samples, sapless, scaleup, specula, sumless, upscale. | |
-5 letters: almuce, ampule, ampuls, amuses, assume, camels, campus, caules, causes, clamps, clasps, clause, clumps, culpae, cupels, cusses, lapses, lapsus, lasses, lemmas, macles, macule, maples, masses, mescal, muscae, muscle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 63 6C 65      53 70 61 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s c l e   S p a s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0063 006C 0065      0053 0070 0061 0073 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47878569787125382678579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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