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cramp Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a sudden painful tightening in a muscle, often after a lot of exercise, that limits movement:
- Several runners needed treatment for cramp ( US cramps) and exhaustion.
- I've got cramp in my foot.
- stomach cramps
1 to limit someone, especially to prevent them from enjoying a full life:
- Worry and lack of money cramp the lives of the unemployed.
2 a sudden, painful tightening of a muscle:
- stomach cramps
- a foot cramp

Outbreaks from each syndrome reported upwards of 80-100 % of cases with cramps and diarrhoea.
In this subgroup the most common symptoms were fever, headache, sore throat, abdominal pain or cramps, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting.
One starts to realise that one must accept one's body with all of the wrinkles and cramps it gets.
Usually they lived in tenement houses or lodgings which were cramped, filthy and unhealthy.
The caboose had three bunks, but at 13 x 5.5 x 5 ft (4 x 1.7 x 1.5 m) the accommodation was exceedingly cramped.
Symptoms included diarrhoea (88 %), fever (80 %), abdominal cramps (65 %), nausea (42 %), vomiting (35 %) and headache (29 %).
The cramps and diarrhoea variables were subsequently dropped as they provided little distinction between pathogens.
The main presenting clinical symptoms of 19 cases investigated were watery diarrhoea (100 %), fever (78n9 %), vomiting (52n6 %) and abdominal cramps (26n3 %).