muscle spasm

1. 1.

   a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

   Synonymsspasmcramp

   Broadersymptom

   Narrowercharley horsewriter's crampblepharospasmcrickmyoclonusopisthotonostwitchtenesmustrismus

Questions about muscle spasm

What does muscle spasm mean?

muscle spasm means "a painful and involuntary muscular contraction".

What is another word for muscle spasm?

Close synonyms include spasm, cramp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muscle spasm a common word?

muscle spasm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.