Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tic

Tic , noun

[French]

(Medicine) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. — Dunglison
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Tic douloureux (Medicine) , Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Face.