Twitching
11twitching — n. Spasm, twitch …
12twitching — noun a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition • Syn: ↑twitch, ↑vellication • Derivationally related forms: ↑vellicate (for: ↑vellication), ↑twitch, ↑twitch …
13twitching trail — Canadian (chiefly New Brunswick). a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor. * * * …
14twitching trail — Canadian (chiefly New Brunswick). a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor …
15Trousseau phenomenon sign syndrome twitching — Trous·seau phenomenon, sign, syndrome, twitching (troo soґ) [Armand Trousseau, French physician, 1801–1867] see under phenomenon, sign, syndrome, and twitching …
16fascicular twitching — repetitive brief contraction of large groups of bundles of muscle fibers …
17fibrillar twitching — repetitive brief contraction of single bundles of muscle fibers …
18Trousseau twitching — repetitive brief contraction involving muscles of the face …
19Chvosteck's sign — twitching of the facial muscles elicited by stimulation of the facial nerve by tapping. This indicates muscular irritability, usually due to calcium depletion (see tetany). F. Chvosteck (1835 84), Austrian surgeon …
20Joffroy reflex — twitching of the gluteal muscles on pressure against the buttocks, seen in spastic paralysis …