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noun • a painful and involuntary muscular contraction • a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued • a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together verb • secure with a cramp • prevent the progress or free movement of • affect with or as if with a cramp • suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | ||||||||
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noun • a painful and involuntary muscular contraction • (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | ||||||||
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noun • an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | ||||||||
Involuntary And Painful Contraction Of A Muscle
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CRAMP which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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CRAMP
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