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Description: and that's just squeezing the air out of you. It literally is that basic a way of making a sound. You could be stamping on somebody, it's having the same effect. You're just squeezing air out, and each of those contractions -- Ha! -- gives you a sound. And as the contractions run together, you can get these spasms,

Mehmet Oz

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Turkish Entertainer

Nicholas Soames

I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.

British Politician

Henry Rollins

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.

American Musician

Madeline Kahn

Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

American Actress

Brian O'Driscoll

It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.

Irish Athlete

Dick York

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

American Actor

Kadeena Cox

I have MS and am heat intolerant so it is tricky. It is affecting my spasms and affects my speech - which is annoying because I like talking.

British Athlete

George Steiner

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

American Critic

Teresa Medeiros

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.

American Novelist

Zach Anner

When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

American Comedian

Indicates an uncontrollable muscle action, not done on purpose.

Involuntary Movement

Muscle spasms are usually uncomfortable or painful, causing visible or subtle movements.

Often Painful

Usually used in medical or health-related discussions to describe symptoms.

Medical Context

Highlights that emotional or energy outbursts are brief and not sustained over time.

Short Duration

Conveys an unexpected, often powerful emotional reaction or burst of action.

Sudden Intensity

Not always negative; can describe positive reactions like laughter or enthusiasm.

Can be Positive

Often used metaphorically to describe societal or collective sudden actions.

Metaphoric Use

May refer to sudden events in social or political contexts, like protests or movements.

Political or Social

 and that's just squeezing the air out of you. It literally is that basic a way of making a sound. You could be stamping on somebody, it's having the same effect. You're just squeezing air out, and each of those contractions -- Ha! -- gives you a sound. And as the contractions run together, you can get these spasms,

Why we laugh PIPE Sophie...

 species to go until I get the entire inventory of what's in the world zoos I'm especially concerned about frogs they're dying at unprecedented rates we are on the edge of a vast extinction spasm they're fascinating amazing and they really teach us that we should care

Joel Sartore: Capturing...

 These stimulate the prey's muscles, sending it into spasms and generating waves that reveal its hiding place. Then, a volley of fast, high-voltage discharges causes even more intense muscle contractions. The electric eel can also curl up so that the electric fields

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 How do you unlearn the learned paralysis, so you can relieve him of this excruciating, clenching spasm of the phantom arm? Well, we said, what if you now send the command to the phantom, but give him visual feedback that it's obeying his command, right?

3 clues to understanding...

 occupying overall less than a millionth of the elapsed lifetime and seemingly occurring with runaway speed? If they continued their vigil, what might these hypothetical aliens witness in the next hundred years? Will some spasm foreclose Earth's future?

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 And so what I'm saying is, the teddy bear was born into the middle of this great spasm of extermination, and you can see it as a sign that maybe some people deep down were starting to feel conflicted about all that killing.

The strange story of the...

 And it's not just the lack of feeling and movement. Paralysis also interferes with the body's internal systems, which are designed to keep us alive. Multiple infections, nerve pain, spasms, shortened life spans are common.

A love letter to realism...

 and excitement. Let's look at what happens when we hiccup. It begins with an involuntary spasm or sudden contraction of the diaphragm, the large dome-shaped muscle below our lungs that we use to inhale air.

Why do we hiccup? - John...

 torn quad I was having spasms in my back and this was the end of my running career I was devastated this was the destruction of my dream I mean I had to draw a picture of what I was going to do with my life

Re-envision what it...

 them from to stop muscle spasms and the patient asked why didn't you inject my forehead Jean said you don't have spasms there the patient said I know but every time you inject my forehead I get this

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