Crossword-Solution: BLEPHAROSPASM 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

Sometimes all the muscles are involved, sometimes only one, for example the orbicularis oculi (palpebrarum)--blepharospasm.

Leber has recently joined those cases which are described as blindness through blepharospasm, to amblyopia from disuse.

First, I wish to observe that blepharospasm is not a necessary cause; I have seen the same disturbance of vision follow severe double blenorrhoea, which destroyed one eye but left the other uninjured.

Cruchet has quite recently approached the subject in a critical fashion: To extend the term tic to tonic spasms such as mental torticollis, mental trismus, or permanent blepharospasm, is singularly to outstep the limits of its significance.

The terms blepharospasm and blepharoclonus, sometimes applied to tonic and to clonic involuntary palpebral contractions respectively, ought to be strictly reserved for spasms and contractures properly so called.