vasospasm
noun
vasospasm is a noun meaning “Spasm of the blood vessels, leading to vasoconstriction and potentially tissue ischemia and necrosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-S-O-S-P-A-S-M, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vasospasm is vasospasms.
What does vasospasm mean?
noun
- 1
Spasm of the blood vessels, leading to vasoconstriction and potentially tissue ischemia and necrosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vasospasm
- vasospasms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vasospasm?
Vasospasm appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vasospasm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense spasm of the blood vessels:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vasospasme |
| Spanish | vasoespasmo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vasospasm come from?
From vaso- + spasm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).