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Is it true that a spasm is a sudden violent involuntary contraction of one or more muscles?
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∙ 11y ago
Yes. That is the definition of a spasm.
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What is the sudden involuntary contraction of a diaphragm muscle?
It is called a Tracheospasm
What is a sudden painful involuntary contraction of a muscle called?
A spasm.sedimentarySpasm
What is the suffix for sudden involuntary contraction of muscle at the distal region of the stomach?
The suffix for sudden involuntary contraction of muscle is "-spasm." So, the condition you are referring to in the distal region of the stomach would be called "gastros- (stomach) -spasm."
What does cramps mean?
A painful and involuntary muscular contraction.
What is a sudden intense involuntary muscle contraction?
A spasm A cramp A twitch A tick An epileptic fit
What is the medical term meaning sudden contraction of a blood vessel?
Angiospasm is sudden contraction of a blood vessel. In contrast, vasoconstriction is the normal process of contraction of a blood vessel.VasoconstrictionAngiospasm
What is myospasm?
A myospasm is a muscle spasm - a sudden jerking or twitching caused by contraction of the muscles.
What does the medical term spasm mean?
An involuntary sudden movement or muscular contraction that occurs as a result of some irritant or trauma.
What does convulsed means?
Convulsed is the past tense of convulse. Convulse means to suffer from muscle contractions that cause your body to shudder, like in a seizure.
Singultus refers to what breathing movement involving a sudden intake of air due to an involuntary contraction of the diaphragm and the closure of the vocal apparatus of the larynx?
Hiccup
A sudden flash of bright light would cause?
Contraction of the pupillary contrictor muscles.
Why the head losses due to sudden expansion is more than head losses due to sudden contraction?
Due to the forming of guided flow streams resembling those of venturi, the irreversibilities from a sudden contraction are less than those from a sudden expansion. That's why head losses due to sudden expansion are more than sudden contraction.
