1. A painful and involuntary muscular contraction
   - cramp, muscle spasm 
2. (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)

Derived forms: spasms

See also: spastic

Type of: constriction, symptom

Encyclopedia: Spasm

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