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-'''Muscle spasms''' can be described as an experience where bodily muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly, resulting in an uncontrolled and uncomfortable shaking of the body.<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000021.htm</ref> Because a convulsion is often a symptom of an epileptic seizure, the term convulsion is sometimes used as a synonym for seizure. However, not all epileptic seizures lead to convulsions, and not all convulsions are caused by epileptic seizures.
+'''Muscle spasms''' can be described as an experience where one undergoes a sudden, uncomfortable, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ such as a heart, or a similarly sudden contraction of an orifice.
 ===Psychoactive substances===
 Compounds within our [[psychoactive substance index]] which may cause this effect include: