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Definitions for Tic

[1] Pathology . a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face. tic douloureux.
[2] a persistent or recurrent behavioral trait; personal quirk: her distinctive verbal tics.
[3] a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of Greek origin (analytic ), used especially in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis: hematotic; neurotic.
[4] spasmodic twitching of a particular group of muscles
[5] See tic douloureux

Words related to Tic

twitch, jerk, fit, contraction

Words nearby Tic

tibial nerve, tibiofibular, tibiotarsus, tibullus, tibur, tic, tic douloureux, tic-tac-toe, tical, ticarcillin disodium, tichy

Origin of Tic

-tic< Greek -tikos, extracted from adjectives derived with -ikos -ic from agent nouns ending in -tēs; cf. hieratic

Words that may be confused with Tic

tic, tick

Word origin for Tic

C19: from French, of uncertain origin; compare Italian ticche

Synonyms for Tic

twitch, contraction, fit, jerk