- fasciculation
- noun Date: 1938 muscular twitching involving the simultaneous contraction of contiguous groups of muscle fibers
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fasciculation potential — an electrical potential that occurs with a fasciculation, similar in appearance to a motor unit action potential but occurring spontaneously. These may appear singly or in groups; complex or iterative ones occur in motor unit disorders … Medical dictionary
fasciculation — /feuh sik yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. a fascicular condition. [1935 40; FASCICULATE + ION] * * * … Universalium
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