CRAMP vs SPASM: NOUN
- An involuntary and painful contraction of a muscle; a variety of tonic spasm.
- A piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, etc.; a clamp; a cramp-iron. See cramp-iron.
- A bench-hook or holdfast.
- A portable kind of iron press, having a screw at one end and a movable shoulder at the other, employed by carpenters and joiners for closely compressing the joints of frame-work.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper-leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- That which hinders motion or expansion; restraint; confinement; that which hampers.
- A strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
- A claw; a paw.
- A confined position or part.
- A compressing or restraining force, influence, or thing.
- A cramp iron.
- A frame with an adjustable part to hold pieces together; a clamp.
- Spasmodic contractions of the uterus, such as those occurring during menstruation or labor, usually causing pain in the abdomen that may radiate to the lower back and thighs.
- A temporary partial paralysis of habitually or excessively used muscles.
- An involuntary, spasmodic muscle contraction causing severe pain.
- A painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- A clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
- That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- A ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.
- The patella of a sheep; -- formerly used as a charm for the cramp.
- A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use
- A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
- (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
- A painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle or group of muscles.
- A sudden burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
- Excessive muscular contraction.
- In general, any sudden transitory movement of a convulsive character, voluntary or involuntary; an abnormally energetic action or phase of feeling; a wrenching strain or effort: as, a spasm of industry, of grief, of fright, etc.; a spasm of pain or of coughing.
- An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
- A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion.
- See under Cynic.
- See Angina pectoris, under Angina.
- A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
CRAMP vs SPASM: ADJECTIVE
- Knotty; difficult.
- Cramped.
- N/A
CRAMP vs SPASM: VERB
- Affect with or as if with a cramp
- To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- To prohibit movement or expression.
- (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- Prevent the progress or free movement of
- Secure with a cramp
- To produce and undergo a spasm.
CRAMP vs SPASM: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To affect with or as if with a cramp.
- To suffer from or experience cramps.
- N/A
CRAMP vs SPASM: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To shut in so closely as to restrict the physical freedom of.
- To hold together with a cramp.
- To steer (the wheels of a vehicle) to make a turn.
- To turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.
- To afflict with cramp.
- To form on a cramp.
- To bind together; to unite.
- To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
- To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
- To jam (a wheel) by a short turn.
- N/A
CRAMP vs SPASM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To affect with cramps or spasms.
- To confine as if in or with a cramp; hinder from free action or development; restrain; hamper; cripple.
- To fashion or shape on a cramp: as, to cramp boot-legs.
- To fasten, confine, or hold with a cramp-iron, fetter, or some similar device.
- Difficult; knotty; hard to decipher, as writing; crabbed.
- Contracted; strait; cramped.
- Suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- Used to hold masonry together
- (idiom) (cramp (one's) style) To restrict or prevent from free action or expression.
- N/A
CRAMP vs SPASM: RELATED WORDS
- Numbness, Backache, Tightness, Crampy, Charley horse, Discomfort, Soreness, Band, Clamp, Kink, Crick, Cramp iron, Halter, Hamper, Spasm
- Soreness, Carpopedal, Jerk, Thrill, Fit, Tic, Flurry, Contraction, Spurt, Throe, Tremor, Twitch, Chill, Burst, Cramp
CRAMP vs SPASM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Fatigue, Tiredness, Numbness, Backache, Tightness, Crampy, Charley horse, Discomfort, Soreness, Clamp, Kink, Cramp iron, Halter, Hamper, Spasm
- Soreness, Carpopedal, Jerk, Thrill, Fit, Tic, Flurry, Contraction, Spurt, Throe, Tremor, Twitch, Chill, Burst, Cramp
CRAMP vs SPASM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- What causes a muscle to spasm or cramp?
- Coo per, Nicola; For rest, Kirsty; Cramp, Paul.
- Colic, cramp in the stomach, griping pains; Ht.
- While not close, neck cramp can also pijnweg.
- While not close, neck cramp can also lackmar.
- She felt a huge cramp in her stomach.
- Intense exercise is often the precipitator of a muscle cramp, but exercise is not a necessary requirement to experience a cramp.
- Passive stretch and massage of the affected muscle may relieve cramp and stretching the calf muscles daily has been recommended to prevent cramp.
- Synonyms and related Cramp meaning is Cramp iron, Halter, Hamper and Spasm and Strangle.
- Uses: Respiratory infection, sinusitis, sinus headache, influenza, fever, headache, migraine, rheumatism, arthritis, muscular aches and pains, leg cramp, abdominal cramp.
- This intrusion almost threw her into a spasm.
- What causes a muscle to spasm or cramp?
- Differentiate central causes of facial spasm from central causes of facial spasm.
- If prosopospasm is a spasm of the face, then a spasm of the eye is ophthalmospasm.
- As soon as you feel your abdominal muscle start to spasm, grab the affected area and massage it until the spasm goes away.
- Shortened muscles may spasm; isometric exercises should be encouraged to gain control of these muscles to reduce spasm.
- Esophageal spasm consists of two categories: normotensive diffuse esophageal spasm and hypertensive peristalsis disorders, commonly referred to as jackhammer or nutcracker esophagus.
- When muscle spasm is present, patients often complain of a heaviness and weakness in the area of spasm.
- Hips meshed as spasm after delicious spasm ripped through her bowels, not for long!
- And so the tableau hung, for spasm after uterine spasm.
CRAMP vs SPASM: QUESTIONS
- Why does a muscle under my chin Cramp painfully when I yawn?
- Who do you prefer harmony cramp or Molly Atkinson as Cecily?
- What does it mean when your ovaries Cramp for a day?
- Why did Boldon say the American athlete had a cramp?
- What happens when you get a cramp while working out?
- How many capsules are in a bottle of cramp defense?
- What should one do when get a cramp while swimming?
- What are non-pharmacological treatments for writer's Cramp?
- What medications are used to treat gracilis muscle spasm?
- Why does the parasympathetic nervous system cause bronchial spasm?
- Which electroencephalogram (EEG) findings are characteristic of epileptic spasm?
- Does morphine induce spasm in the sphincter of Oddi?
- What is the most effective hemifacial spasm treatment?
- What you should know about muscle spasm medication?
- What is the best treatment for accommodative spasm?
- What causes esophageal spasm after swallowing cold liquids?
- Can Xanax (Alprazolam) cause severe lumbar muscle spasm?
- How does acute hyperventilation cause carpopedal spasm?