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fasciculation

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An involuntary muscle twitch, usually localised and temporary, but that may be intensified and prolonged fatally by particular poisons and venoms such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
  2. noun A cluster of fascicles.
  3. noun The process of becoming fasciculate, of growing together in clusters of fascicles.

Similar words

neurite fasciculate fasciation fasciculus fascicule defasciculation fascicle fasicle fibrillation fascitis

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Word family

fasciculations

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