Preposition: of

• artery: Less common causes include spasms of the coronary arteries or disease of the smaller branches of these arteries.

• muscle: For instance, spasm of muscles may give rise to writer's or musician's cramp.

• pain: And then: It was like a short spasm of pain.

Converse of object

• relieve: It works quickly at relieving spasms, often quicker than conventional pain relief.

• relax: It makes breathing easier by relaxing muscle spasms in the air passages of the lungs.

• reduce: Paul, how do you reduce the spasm in your son's legs?

• treat: Baclofen is used by intrathecal pump to treat the painful spasms of cerebral palsy.

• prevent: A larger dose is sometimes given at night to prevent spasms that interfere with sleep.

• suffer: As a result of this brain damage, Mrs A suffered severe muscle spasms and her teeth were permanently clenched.

Preposition: in

• muscle: Assessment There was spasm in the suspensory muscles of the larynx.

Adjective modifier

• infantile: Early treatment of infantile spasm might preserve cognitive functioning in some children.

• hemifacial: For unknown reasons hemifacial spasm tends to affect the left side of the face more often than the right.

• involuntary: These involuntary spasms of the vocal cords cause the voice to change in quality.

• muscular: In addition to increased muscle tone, there are episodic muscular spasms.

• laryngeal: The reason is that under halothane alone laryngeal spasm often occurs.

• uncontrollable: Between bites I was overcome by uncontrollable spasms of laughter.

Noun used with modifier

• muscle: Muscle spasm in the thoracic region can cause referred pain to radiate into the chest or abdomen.

• bladder: An impacted sigmoid colon or rectum can give rise to bladder spasms which obstruct free drainage of urine.

• tonic: Tonic spasms may develop at 3 - 4 months.

• vessel: Patients who develop the condition almost always suffer from Raynaud's phenomenon ( blood vessel spasm triggered by cold weather ) first.