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1. crampsnoun

   A cramping of muscles, especially in the abdomen or uterus.

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1. cramps

   A cramp is a sudden, involuntary, painful skeletal muscle contraction or overshortening associated with electrical activity; while generally temporary and non-damaging, they can cause significant pain and a paralysis-like immobility of the affected muscle. A cramp usually goes away on its own over a period of several seconds, or minutes. Cramps are common and tend to occur at rest, usually at night (nocturnal leg cramps). They are also often associated with pregnancy, physical exercise or overexertion, age (common in older adults), in such cases, cramps are called idiopathic, because there is no underlying pathology. In addition to those benign conditions cramps are also associated with many pathologic conditions.Skeletal muscle cramps may be caused by muscle fatigue or a lack of electrolytes such as sodium (a condition called hyponatremia), potassium (called hypokalemia), or magnesium (called hypomagnesemia). Some skeletal muscle cramps do not have a known cause. Motor neuron disorders (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), metabolic disorders (e.g., liver failure), some medications (e.g., diuretics and inhaled beta‐agonists), and haemodialysis may also cause muscle cramps.Cramp definition is narrower than the definition of muscle spasm: spasms include any involuntary abnormal muscle contractions, while cramps are sustained and painful. True cramps can be distinguished from other cramp-like conditions. Cramps are different from muscle contracture, which is also painful and involuntary, but which is electrically silent. The main distinguishing features of cramps from dystonia are suddenness with acute onset of pain, involvement of only one muscle and spontaneous resolution of cramps or their resolution after stretching the affected muscle. Restless leg syndrome is not considered the same as muscle cramps and should not be confused with rest cramps.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cramps in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cramps in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of cramps in a Sentence

1. La Puma:

   Ginger probably works as well as ibuprofen for menstrual cramps. It works taken as a ginger capsule or chewed.

2. Daniil Medvedev:

   It would be not a good feeling if I lost three finals in a row so it's just a relief and I'm so happy, i started feeling cramps at 5-3( in the second set), first time in three weeks I started cramping, probably because of the nerves and it's been 24 days in a row I played tennis.

3. Ryan Marsh:

   Since he’s been on this new drug, the main side effect is muscle cramping, and that’s just something almost a normal person would experience with some of the things he does, but he seems to do a good job of dialing back the intensity when [the muscle cramps] come back.

4. Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor:

   I suffered stomach cramps and could not just go through.

5. The Orchard -RRB- Young:

   After a terrible flight, I had what I thought was a bad back cramp, he’s like, ‘Get on the ground. I know how to handle cramps. Don’t worry.’ He puts his knuckle on my ribs, and all of a sudden, whatever pain I had moved over to the other side of my body. So then he goes, ‘Let’s go to the hospital.’ It ends up being a blood clot. So Bob Saget saved my life. But he almost nearly killed me by sending it to the other side of my lung when he put his knuckle in it.

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