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Webster 1913 Edition
Tic
Tic
,Noun.
[F.]
(Med.)
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; – called also
spasmodic tic
. Dunglison.
Tic douloureux
. [F., fr.
tic
a knack, a twitching + douloureux
painful.] (Med.)
Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under
Face
.