0 (to cause) to make a sudden small movement with a part of the body, usually without intending to: --
2 a sudden small, usually unintentional, movement of a part of the body: --
3 a sudden light pull or movement --
4 to make a short and sudden movement, or to cause part of your body to move suddenly: --
Other symptoms may include tingling of the skin (paresthesias), prolonged muscle spasms, weakness in the limbs, nerve pain, muscle twitching, palpitations, and functional bowel disturbances.
He used his bristling moustache to express all kinds of emotion by twitching or moving it.
The veteran also had a problem with his knee and, while under general anaesthetic, had experienced muscle twitching which his orthopaedic surgeon thought should be further investigated.
Each muscle fibre begins twitching independently, and in some cases one single muscle impulse gets loose, so to speak, and courses round and round the heart.
In his contribution, those interests extended to twitching and to classical and literary references.
I only wish that every time he twitched his face he would spend another £1 million.
I knew that there was no aggression coming from him, because his moustache was not twitching.
Twitches observed by the doctor who examined the foetus and by other eye-witnesses could not constitute signs of life.
