Spasms like this occur in some people with some regularity (I am one such person) my Doctor as well as a family friend who is a physician told me they are muscle spasms. And they feel and spasm differently than a muscle spasm in more common places because it is a different type of muscle. Skeletal versus Smooth. Still it should be shown to a qualified health practitioner in case there is an underlying cause or misinterpretation of the type of "spasm" you may be experiencing.
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."
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The medical term meaning spasm of the esophagus is known simply as "esophageal spasm." Doctors don't know why some people suffer with these spasms but treatment methods include nitroglycerin, anti-depressants, and in rare cases, surgery.
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Overstretching of a muscle initiates a stretch reflex spasm where the muscle spindle cells relay a message to the spinal cord, and an efferent message is sent to motor units to contract the muscle, thereby causing a muscle spasm.
carpopedal spasm are spasm of the hand or foot, or of the thumbs and great toes.
Cytoplasm rhymes with spasm.
Spasm - album - was created in 1993.
When cockroaches die, their nervous system shuts down, causing their muscles to spasm and their bodies to flip over involuntarily.
Yes. Esophageal spasm is a known medical condition.
My hand just had a spasm!
As he fell, he could feel a spasm in his back.