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What is a fasciculation?

What is a fasciculation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) (toxicology, venoms) An involuntary muscle twitch, usually localised and temporary, but that may be intensified and prolonged fatally by particular poisons and venoms such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.
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Intravenous injection of cholinesterase inhibitors caused fasciculation, a fine involuntary muscular movement.
This phenotype may be the result of defective interaxon communication that obstructs axon extension or fasciculation in the longitudinal pathways.
Local sweating and fasciculation of local muscle groups may occur initially after skin absorption of liquid or vapour.
At the same time, fasciculation of all the muscles was observed.
In our survey, de-fasciculation is frequently performed with succinylcholine that provokes fasciculation.
It is important to note that the aberrant projections do not seem to result from fasciculation defects or growth impairments.

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