### symptom | cramp:

Heat cramp
* are another sign of heat sickness
  - due to muscle spasms and often occur in the arms, legs, or abdomen
  - helpful because they force a person to stop and rest
  - manifest by painful spasms of abdominal and skeletal muscles
  - muscle spasms caused by excessive loss of salt during perspiration
* are muscular pains and spasms due to heavy exertion
  - that usually occur in the legs or abdomen
  - which are caused by heavy exertion in the heat
* are often an early sign of approaching heat exhaustion
  - that the body is having trouble with the heat
* are painful involuntary muscle spasms in the arms, legs and mid-section
  - muscle crams caused by a heavy loss of salt in the body
* are painful muscle spasms in the abdomen, arms, or legs following strenuous activity
  - that usually occur in the legs and abdomen
  - spasms in a muscle caused by excessive salt loss due to profuse sweating
* are painful spasms of the muscles caused by excessive loss of salt from the body
  - severe, even disabling cramps in the hands, feet or calves
  - the least severe and usually occur in the arms, legs and abdomen
* are the least severe of the heat-related illnesses
  - three heat-related illnesses
  - mildest form of hyperthermia
  - very painful, and occur when the body loses salt through exercise or exertion
* can be the result of heavy exertion.
* develop because of excessive perspiration and loss of salt from the body
  - fairly rapidly due to a loss of fluid and salt due to sweating
* is muscle cramp caused by sweating.
* occur in healthy individuals during or following strenuous physical activity
  - when a person sweats heavily and loses a great amount of salt
* result primarily from the excess loss of salt through sweating.
* tend to occur after intense exertion.

Leg cramp
* affect one third of women in the later half of pregnancy.
* are a potential side-effect of raloxifene
  - common during the second trimester
* occur when an involuntary contraction of the calf muscle causes an uncontrollable spasm.

Menstrual cramp
* Have a tablespoon of aloe vera gel with two pinches of black pepper thrice a day.
* are pretty common.
* do vary with age.
* is cramp.
* occur in girls who are ovulating most months.
* vary a lot in intensity, from woman to woman and even from cycle to cycle.

Muscle cramp
* are an age-old enemy of the athlete
  - common after exercising vigorously in hot weather
  - sudden, brief, usually painful contractions of shortened muscles or muscle groups
  - the most common
  - very common
* occur in a third of all children.
* range in intensity from a slight tic to agonizing pain.

### symptom | cramp:

Myoclonus
* are diseases
* associated with epilepsy commonly is symmetric.
* consists of single jerks of any part of the body.
* describes both a symptom and a disease.
* epilepsy with ragged red fibers is inherited maternally.
* fairly common side effect seen most often with higher opioid doses.
* is cramp
  - involuntary and sudden movement of the trunk and extremities
  - sudden shock-like muscular twitches of the face, limbs, or trunk
* term that refers to brief, involuntary twitching of a muscle or a group of muscles.