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  • 1. spasm
  • Rhymes with Spasm
  • Spasm in a sentence
  • Quotes about Spasm
  • 2. spasm
Table of Contents
  • 1. spasm
  • Rhymes with Spasm
  • Spasm in a sentence
  • Quotes about Spasm
  • 2. spasm
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology

1. spasm

noun. ['ˈspæzəm'] a painful and involuntary muscular contraction.

Synonyms

  • blepharospasm
  • wrick
  • vellication
  • rick
  • symptom
  • charley-horse
  • kink
  • writer's cramp
  • graphospasm
  • twitch
  • charley horse
  • myoclonus
  • opisthotonos
  • crick
  • tenesmus
  • twitching
  • trismus
  • muscle spasm

Antonyms

  • hypernatremia
  • hypokalemia
  • hyperkalemia
  • unbend

Etymology

  • spasme (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
  • spasmus (Latin)

Rhymes with Spasm

  • phantasm
  • chasm

Sentences with spasm


1. Noun, singular or mass
A spasm is a contraction that is involuntary and can cause pain.

2. Verb, base form
Muscles that become overstressed through poor posture or injury have a tendency to spasm.

Quotes about spasm


1. He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.
- Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

2. spasm

noun. ['ˈspæzəm'] (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel).

Synonyms

  • retch
  • heave
  • cardiospasm
  • bronchospasm
  • laryngismus

Antonyms

  • hypocalcemia
  • hyponatremia
  • hyperglycemia
  • hypoglycemia

Etymology

  • spasme (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
  • spasmus (Latin)
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