tic
tik
- n a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
- The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths.
- After Estrada's overthrow in 1920 came a series of military-dominated governments that were almost as bad; when Asturias published a set of anti-militaris tic articles, his .
- By doctors and patients familiar with it, tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia is considered the most painful of human ills.