fasciculation

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Noun

fasciculation (countable and uncountable, plural fasciculations)

1. (anatomy, muscles) (toxicology, venoms) 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. A cluster of fascicles.
3. The process of becoming fasciculate, of growing together in clusters of fascicles.

Derived terms

• cofasciculation
• cramp fasciculation syndrome
• defasciculation

Translations

involuntary muscle twitch

Chinese: Mandarin: 肌束震顫 / 肌束震颤 (jīshù zhènchàn) Dutch: fasciculatie (nl) f French: fasciculation (fr) f German: Faszikulation f Indonesian: fasikulasi Italian: fascicolazione f Japanese: 筋線維束性攣縮 (きんせんいそくせいれんしゅく,kinsei sokusei reishuku) Norwegian: Bokmål: lemus (no) m, leamus (no) m, fasikkulasjon m Persian: پرش عضلانی, فاسیکولاسیون Portuguese: fasciculação (pt) f Russian: фасцикуляция f (fascikuljacija) Spanish: fasciculación f Swedish: fascikulation c