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Definition: Blepharospasm |
BlepharospasmNoun1. Spasm of the eyelid muscle resulting in closure of the eye. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Excessive winking; tonic or clonic spasm of the orbicularis oculi muscle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Blepharospasm |
| Specialty definitions using "blepharospasm": Botulinum Toxin Type A. (references) |
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Health | In hemifacial spasm, the types of complications are similar to those that occur in blepharospasm. (references) | |
For blepharospasm, mild eyelid ptosis is the most common complication (10 to 40 percent of cases). (references) | ||
Blepharospasm, the second most common focal dystonia, is the involuntary, forcible closure of the eyelids. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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blepharospasm | 76 |
benign essential blepharospasm | 4 |
botox for blepharospasm | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blepharospasm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | blepharospasme (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blepharospasmus (blepharism), blepharismus (blepharism), blefarospasme (blepharism), blefarisme (blepharism), ooglidkramp (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | blépharospasme (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Blepharospasmus (blepharism), Blepharismus (blepharism), Lidkrampf (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | βλεφαρόσπασμος (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epharospasmblay blefarospasmo (blepharism). (various references) blefaroespasmo (blepharism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "blepharospasm": blepharospasms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-m-o-p-p-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: phalaropes. | |
-4 letters: malaprops, palpebras, phalarope, prolapses, prophases, psoraleas, sapropels, sparables. | |
-5 letters: amphorae, amphoral, amphoras, apparels, apposers, armholes, haploses, harmless, lampases, malaprop, mappable, marshals, palpebra, pamperos, parables, parasols, parsable, passable, pearlash, pharoses, plashers, prebasal, problems, prolapse, prophase, psoralea, rampoles, reposals, sambhars, samplers, saprobes, sapropel, shamable, shambles, shapable, sharable, shoppers, slappers, sparable, splasher. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-h-l-m-o-p-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: blepharospasms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 65 70 68 61 72 6F 73 70 61 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. . .--. .... .- .-. --- ... .--. .- ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l e p h a r o s p a s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 0065 0070 0068 0061 0072 006F 0073 0070 0061 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36787182746784818582678579 |
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