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synonyms for cramp
- ache
- constipation
- contraction
- convulsion
- pain
- stiffness
- twinge
- circumscription
- confinement
- crick
- hindrance
- impediment
- kink
- obstruction
- pang
- restriction
- stitch
- stricture
- charley horse
- shooting pain
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The residents of Çatalhöyük appear to have copied the cramped passages of natural caves.
An Ancient Site with Human Skulls on Display - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Jo Marchant | September 2, 2020 | NautilusInstead, a rival theory blaming cramps on “altered neuromuscular control” first proposed in the 1990s by Martin Schwellnus, a sports physician at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, has been gaining support.
Schwellnus himself warned that muscle cramps are a complex phenomenon with many different contributing factors, so we shouldn’t expect a simple solution.
What we’re left with is a search for factors we can control that might influence cramp risk.
This punctures the idea that cramps are a punishment for bad pacing.
Cast: Tyler Christopher, Isabella cramp, Jami Gertz, Tim Jo, Toks Olagundoye, Simon Templeman, Lenny Venito.
TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2012-13’s New Shows | Jace Lacob, Maria Elena Fernandez | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIf Prince Harry is back on again with Chelsy Davy, he's not letting it cramp his style.
Madame Ratignolle begged Robert to accompany her to the house; she complained of cramp in her limbs and stiffness of the joints.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinJack nodded with a strange, twisted little smile, as if he were suffering from cramp in the legs.
With Edged Tools | Henry Seton Merriman“Ah, my dear, you careless young people make jokes of things that would fret us old ones to fiddle-strings,” reproved Mrs. cramp.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series | Mrs. Henry WoodThe darkness and chill began to tell upon me, and an agonising cramp contracted my legs.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-GouldWhen the cramp left me, I cast myself off again, and dropped below the ledge.
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-Gould
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