(n.) That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
(n.) A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
(n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
(n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
(n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
(v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
(v. t.) To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
(v. t.) to bind together; to unite.
(v. t.) To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
(v. t.) To afflict with cramp.
(n.) Knotty; difficult.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(2) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
(3) Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients.
(4) The 1st gynecologic consultant was called after the patient experienced severe cramps and passage of part of a placenta.
(5) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
(6) When there's a very limited stock of social housing, and very long waiting lists for people who need it, and lots of big families living in very cramped conditions, that isn't wrong at all.
(7) They also complained of exercise-induced stiffening and cramps of their leg muscles.
(8) Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse , the national newspaper for prisoners, said the former MP should expect "to find himself in a prison reception that is cramped, cold and busy – with up to 200 prisoners being processed each day".
(9) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(10) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(11) For chronic phantom and stump pain, burning sensations are treated with interventions designed to increase blood flow to the residual limb, whereas cramping sensations are treated with interventions that reduce muscle spasms.
(12) Post-prandial cramping abdominal pain may be an early symptom of thrombosis, demanding immediate anticoagulation.
(13) Our purpose was to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of single oral doses of ketoprofen 25, 50, and 100 mg compared with aspirin 650 mg and placebo in the relief of moderate to severe postepisiotomy, uterine cramping, or cesarean section pain.
(14) Photograph: Rozena Crossman Despite its small size, the café has a lighter and more modern atmosphere than the cramped bookshop next door, a famous hub for influential writers.
(15) The four-bedroom apartments are cramped and austere, but they sell for more than $100,000.
(16) Epidural morphine is used for postcesarean analgesia, and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are frequently administered to relieve uterine cramps after vaginal delivery.
(17) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
(18) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(19) 65% (140) quit because of side effects, usually pregnancy-like symptoms (such as nausea or weight gain), or menstrual symptoms (such as hemorrhaging or cramps).
(20) Funes Mori will commence a three-match ban on Saturday, John Stones was forced out of the derby with stomach cramps, Phil Jagielka is recovering from a hamstring strain and Seamus Coleman is almost certainly out with a similar injury.
Tetany
Definition:
(n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step.
(2) The existence of such an effect also in the present preparation was studied by giving 'interrupted' tetani with a total duration of about 2 s. In rested fibres the mean rate of relaxation was found to fall from 140.9 to 71.8% (n = 11) of the control (end of 350 ms stimulation) with a time constant of about 0.5 s. Thus, a marked slowing during a long tetanus occurs also in mammalian muscle.
(3) A physiological deficiency of Mg results in hypomagnesemic tetany.
(4) The investigation involved the older workers and the workers at highest dust exposure levels and included general medical screening with emphasis on the existence of hypertension, edema, calcium tetany, anemia, common skin problems, nasal septum perforation, persistent diarrhea; lung function tests; serum analyses for sulfate, calcium, sodium, and chloride content; and urinary inorganic sulfate output.
(5) This can lead to neonatal tetany or perhaps permanent neonatal hypoparathyroidism.
(6) In grass tetany, the animals generally are grazing cool-season forages in which Mg concentration or bioavailability of plant Mg is low.
(7) Immunoprophylaxis of infectious complications in surgical patients is currently practiced and is efficacious for disease caused by Clostridium tetani, rabies virus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and hepatitis B virus.
(8) The association between idiopathic mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and latent tetany (LT) is common, as shown in our previous studies on adults and children.
(9) Renal tubular acidosis and tetany were the 1st manifestations of Kearns-Sayre syndrome in a 5-year-old child.
(10) In this case, anaerobic culture of C tetani was unsuccessful, possibly because of the inherent difficulty of anaerobic transfer from an oral locus and the extreme fastidiousness of the organism.
(11) Underlying tendency to tetany is the most common aetiology, going hand in hand with increased histamine sensitivity.
(12) Isometric responses to single and twin pulses, tetani and sinusoidal stimulation were measured.
(13) Steady-state force and [Ca2+]i were measured during tetani, and the force versus [Ca2+]i relation was obtained by varying the extracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(14) Further research is required before these lesions can be identified and new knowledge applied to the development of economical, effective programs that prevent milk fever and hypomagnesemic tetany.
(15) Like tetany, which was present in 12 of the patients, epilepsy was a common symptom, occurring in 13, seven of whom had received anticonvulsants for two to eight years before hypocalcaemia was detected.
(16) The results suggest that alkalosis per se can cause tetany in Bartter's syndrome.
(17) A 2-kilobase (kb) EcoI fragment of Clostridium tetani DNA was identified by Southern blotting and was cloned into the Escherichia coli plasmid vector pAT153 with the 32P-labeled oligonucleotide mixture as a probe.
(18) Thirty-eight animals were continued on treatment for a 2nd yr. Sometribove did not affect the incidence of ketosis, milk fever, tetany, or pneumonia.
(19) Although the culture filtrate was highly active, disc electrophoresis revealed that the toxin is a minor component of the mixture of proteins in the crude preparation, and that the minor representation contrasts with the relative prominence of exotoxins in cultures of other bacteria, such as Vibrio cholerae, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and Clostridium tetani.
(20) Thus, a fetal death or an episode of neonatal tetany may reveal a maternal hyperparathyroidism.