Muscle Spasm

  

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Muscle Spasm

Definition: Muscle Spasm

Muscle Spasm

Noun

1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Muscle Spasm

Synonyms: cramp (n), spasm (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Muscle Spasm

English words defined with "muscle spasm": crickrickwrick. (references)
Specialty definitions using "muscle spasm": Chlormezanone. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Muscle Spasm

DomainTitle

Books

  • Muscle Spasm and Pain (reference)

  • Muscle Spasm, Pain & Marijuana Therapy : Testimony from Federal and State Court Proceedings on Marijuana's Medical Use (reference)

  • Speaking of Back-Aches: Advice and Help on Disc Problems, Wear and Tear of the Spinal Column, Muscle Spasm, Sciatica, Headaches and Migraines (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Muscle Spasm

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Muscle Spasm

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

muscle spasm

235

chest muscle spasm

3

back muscle spasm

16

chest in muscle spasm

3

cause muscle spasm

13

involuntary muscle spasm

3

muscle spasm treatment

10

lower back and muscle spasm

2

eye muscle spasm

7

calf muscle spasm

2

neck muscle spasm

6

symptom muscle spasm

2

acupuncture muscle spasm

6

back pain muscle spasm

2

chronic muscle spasm

4

facial muscle spasm

2

shoulder muscle spasm

4

cure muscle spasm

2

leg muscle spasm

4

botox muscle spasm

2

muscle spasm stomach

4

heart muscle spasm

2

muscle spasm relief

3

upper back muscle spasm

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Muscle Spasm

Language Translations for "muscle spasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

spasme musculaire. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usclemay asmspay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Muscle Spasm

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Muscle Spasm


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 75 73 63 6C 65      53 70 61 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110000 01100001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#115 &#99 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#83 &#112 &#97 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0073 0063 006C 0065      0053 0070 0061 0073 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47878569787125382678579

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INDEX

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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