tic

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

tic, n. [F.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

Tic douloureux (. [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tic, n. a habitual spasmodic contraction of the muscles esp. of the face.

Idiom

tic douloureux trigeminal neuralgia.

Etymology

F f. It. ticchio: douloureux F, = painful

THESAURUS

tic

abstraction, abulia, agitation, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bob, bobble, bounce, buck fever, bump, case of nerves, catatonic stupor, complex, compulsion, dejection, depression, detachment, didder, dither, elation, emotionalism, euphoria, excessive irritability, falter, fascination, fear, fidgetiness, fidgets, fixation, fixed idea, folie du doute, grimace, hang-up, hypercathexis, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, idee fixe, indifference, insensibility, irresistible impulse, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, lethargy, mania, melancholia, mental distress, monomania, morbid drive, morbid excitability, nerves, nervosity, nervous stomach, nervousness, obsession, obsessive compulsion, panic, panickiness, pathological indecisiveness, possession, preoccupation, prepossession, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, quake, quaver, quiver, rictus, ruling passion, shake, shiver, shock, shudder, spell of nerves, stage fright, state of nerves, stupor, tremble, tremor, trepidation, twitch, twitching, twitter, uneasiness, unresponsiveness, vellication, withdrawal, wobble