- Pathology.
- a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
- tic douloureux.
- a persistent or recurrent behavioral trait; personal quirk: her distinctive verbal tics.
- a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of Greek origin (analytic), used especially in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis: hematotic; neurotic.
- spasmodic twitching of a particular group of muscles
- See tic douloureux
