Look up: fasciculation

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   fasciculation
   Hyperplastic symptom characterized by a clustering of such plant organs as shoots into such structures as witches' brooms.
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   fasciculation
   [n] - muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers
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   Fasciculation
   Fasciculation: Involuntary contractions or twitchings of groups of muscle fibers. Fasciculations can occur in normal individuals without an associated disease or condition and can also occur as a result of illness, such as muscle cramps, nerve diseases, and metabolism imbalances.
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   fasciculation
   Tendency of developing neurites to grow along exisiting neurites and hence form bundles or fascicles. Selective fasciculation in developing vertebrate nervous systems is thought to involve the axon-associated cell adhesion molecules L1, F11, contactin, neurofascin and transient axonal glycoprotein TAG-1, and the fasciclins in insect nervous systems.
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   fasciculation
   <neurology, physiology> A small local contraction of muscles, visible through the skin, representing a spontaneous discharge of a number of fibres innervated by a single motor nerve filament. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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   fasciculation
   noun muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers
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   Fasciculation
   A `fasciculation` (or `muscle twitch`) is a small, local, involuntary muscle contraction (twitching) visible under the skin arising from the spontaneous discharge of a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers. Fasciculations have a variety of causes, the majority of which are benign, but can also be due to disease of the motor neurons.
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciculati
   
   
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   fasciculation
   (fә-sik″u-la´shәn) the formation of fascicles. a small local involuntary muscular contraction visible under the skin, representing spontaneous discharge of a number of fibers innervated by a single motor nerve filament.
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   fasciculation
   (from the article `muscle disease`) The twitching of muscle fibres controlled by a single motor nerve cell, called fasciculation, may occur in a healthy person, but it usually indicates ...
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    fasciculation
    a small local contraction of muscles, visible through the skin, representing a spontaneous discharge of a number of fibres innervated by a single motor nerve filament.
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