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vellication
vellicationa twitching, as of a part of the body; convulsive movement of a muscle.See also: Body, HumanThesaurusNoun | 1. vellication - a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous conditiontwitch, twitchingcramp, muscle spasm, spasm - a painful and involuntary muscular contractiontic - a local and habitual twitching especially in the faceblepharism - condition in which a person blinks continuouslyfibrillation - muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordinationfasciculation - muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers |
vellication
vel·li·ca·tion (vel'i-kā'shŭn), A fibrillary muscular spasm.vellication An obsolete term for spasmodic twitching; fibrillation. It is not used in the working medical parlance.vellication
Synonyms for vellicationnoun a sudden muscle spasmSynonymsRelated Words- cramp
- muscle spasm
- spasm
- tic
- blepharism
- fibrillation
- fasciculation
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