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Meaning
noun a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
noun (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
originFrom Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
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