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English noun: spasm | |||
| 1. | spasm (state) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | ||
| Synonyms | cramp, muscle spasm | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | symptom | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | blepharospasm, charley horse, charley-horse, crick, graphospasm, kink, myoclonus, opisthotonos, rick, tenesmus, trismus, twitch, twitching, vellication, wrick, writer's cramp | ||
| 2. | spasm (act) (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | constriction | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bronchospasm, cardiospasm, heave, laryngismus, retch | ||
| Domain category | pathology | ||
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