Cramp vs Convulsion - What's the difference?
cramp | convulsion |
A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
* Sir T. More
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
* L'Estrange
* Cowper
A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
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.
(of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
To prohibit movement or expression.
* Layard
To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
* Ford
To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
(by extension) To bind together; to unite.
* Burke
To form on a cramp.
(medicine) An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.
Violent turmoil.
* 2013 June 18, , "
As nouns the difference between cramp and convulsion
is that cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled while convulsion is an intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.As a verb cramp
is (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.cramp
English
(wikipedia cramp)Noun
(en noun)- The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
- A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
Derived terms
* brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's crampVerb
(en verb)- You're cramping my style.
- The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- when the gout cramps my joints
- The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- to cramp boot legs
References
* ----convulsion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis.
Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate.