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- Latin · borrowed fromspasmus nutans
- English todayspasmus nutans
Borrowed from Latin spasmus nutans (literally “nodding spasm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
spasmus nutans
Today it means: A syndrome characterised by the symptom triad of head nodding, ocular oscillations and anomalous head position (torticollis). Full definition →
Latin spasmus nutans