spasm vs crick
crick vs spasmspasm and crick both are nouns.
spasm is not a verb while crick is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spasm | Yes | No | No | No |
| crick | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
crick is a hyponym of
spasm; that is, crick is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
spasm:
- spasm: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- crick: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British)
Other hyponyms of spasm include
charley-horse, charley horse, graphospasm, writer's cramp, blepharospasm, kink, rick, wrick, myoclonus, opisthotonos, twitch, twitching, vellication, tenesmus, trismus.
| spasm (noun) | crick (noun) |
|---|---|
| (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) |
| a painful and involuntary muscular contraction |
| spasm (verb) | crick (verb) |
|---|---|
| twist (a body part) into a strained position |
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