facial spasm

The old man experienced a facial spasm, and his lips pulled back from brown stubby teeth.

Mr. Pett controlled a facial spasm with a powerful effort of the will.

By May 8, he had grown incoherent and incontinent, frequently gritting his teeth and suffering facial spasms.

Twitching or spasm around your eyes Facial spasms that last longer than one week There are three common types of eye twitch:

Chvostek's sign (tapping of the inferior portion of the zygoma will produce facial spasms)

The expression she gave back might have been a smile-it might equally have been the facial spasm of someone with indigestion.

Her facial spasms were as severe as ever and the way she stood there, her head tilted to one side, he suspected she was listening to voices.

Major complications of the condition are chronic loss of taste (ageusia), chronic facial spasm, facial pain and corneal infections.

After a few moments, the facial spasms and the shuddering seemed to die away, and apart from a few isolated twitches, the cameraman began to calm down.

Having just completed the tracks for his fourth album in 1996, Walker was playing basketball with a friend, when he began to experience numbness, facial spasms, and double vision.

JAWCRAIG (n. medical) A massive facial spasm which is brought on by being told a really astounding piece of news.

One of his standard routines had Gilbert progressively getting excited or nervous about something, and his speech would break down into facial spasms, culminating in a big, loud sneeze.

Fatigue Stress Irritants such as bright light, wind, or air pollution As the condition worsens, it may lead to an increased sensitivity to light, blurry vision, and facial spasms.

"I wanna see what that little Husker cowgirl thought was so special", she said with a facial spasm that might have been a flirtatious eyebrow lift that suddenly decided to become a wink.

The first sign is trismus, or lockjaw, and the facial spasms called risus sardonicus, followed by stiffness of the neck, difficulty in swallowing, and rigidity of pectoral and calf muscles.

"Bad sleepers help keep me awake," he said, watching the patients on a bank of video monitors as a collection of ancient polygraph machines squiggled out their brain activity, facial spasms and the sweet state of rapid eye movement that eludes so many troubled sleepers.