English noun: muscle spasm | |||
1. | muscle spasm (state) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | ||
Synonyms | cramp, 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 | ||