CRAMP
\kɹˈamp], \kɹˈamp], \k_ɹ_ˈa_m_p]\
Definitions of CRAMP
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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secure with a cramp
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a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
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a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
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a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
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a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
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secure with a cramp; "cramp the wood"
By Princeton University
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That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
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A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron.
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A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc.
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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.
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A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg.
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To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.
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To fasten or hold with, or as with, a cramp.
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to bind together; to unite.
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To form on a cramp; as, to cramp boot legs.
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To afflict with cramp.
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Knotty; difficult.
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A paralysis of certain muscles due to excessive use; as, writer's cramp; milker's cramp, etc.
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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A sustained and usually painful contraction of muscle fibers. This may occur as an isolated phenomenon or as a manifestation of an underlying disease process (e.g., UREMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; etc.). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1398)
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A piece of iron bent at the ends, with a tightening screw at one end to hold blocks of wood, stone, etc.; a sharp pain.
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To affect with muscular spasms; secure with a cramp.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Painful spasm and contraction of muscles.
By William R. Warner
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A painful spasmodic contraction of muscles: restraint: a piece of iron bent at the ends, for holding together wood, stone, etc.
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To affect with spasms: to confine: to hinder: to fasten with a crampiron.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fasten with a cramp.
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To affect with cramps.
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An involuntary, sudden, painful, muscular contraction.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Difficult; knotty. See Clamp.
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A painful spasmodic and involuntary contraction of a muscle; restraint; a piece of iron bent at the ends, serving to hold together pieces of timber, stones, &c.; a cramp-iron.
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To affect with spasms; to restrain; to hinder; to fasten with a cramp-iron.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A painful contraction of a muscle, particularly of the leg or foot; a spasm; restraint; a short piece of iron bent at the ends.
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To pain with the cramp or spasms; to restrain or confine; to fasten with a cramp-iron.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A sudden, involuntary, and highly painful contraction of a muscle or muscles. It is most frequently experienced in the lower extremities, and is a common symptom of certain affections- as of Colica Pictonum and Cholera Morbus. Friction and compression of the limb, by means of a ligature applied around it above the muscles affected, will usually remove the spasm.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A spasmodic and painful contraction of a muscle or muscles.
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A sudden sharp pain, especially applied to gas in the bowels.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
