A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive movement (motor tic) or vocalization (vocal tic).
Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric developmental disorder characterized by rapid, recurrent, non-rhythmic movements (motor tics) and vocalizations (vocal tics) [ 1].
At home I exhibit a vocal tic — a short yell.
A lively discussion erupted around a vocal tic written into Mr. Estabrooks's part.
His one upsetting quirk, she said, was a kind of vocal tic where he would speak in a singsong manner, before chirping "Pretty girl" at Ms. Day.
I have a history of anxiety disorders and I've developed a stress-induced vocal tic which regularly sees me shouting "whoop" at strangers in the street.
It's just one more vocal tic on top of the familiar yodels and whoops that give an amdram aspect to every song.
Previously, the Everton player has suggested that the fact he lives with Tourette's syndrome - a condition characterised by multiple motor tics, and at least one vocal tic - has made him a better athlete.
Five-hundred adults with Tourette's Disorder, Chronic Motor Tic Disorder, or Chronic Vocal Tic Disorder participated in a comprehensive self-report internet-based survey.
In chronic motor or vocal tic disorder tics should be limited to either motor or vocal tics, whereas in TD both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics have to be present.
The latter included the following subcodes: F95.0 (transient tic disorder), F95.1 (chronic motor or vocal tic disorder), F95.2 (TS), F95.8 (other tic disorders), F95.9 (unspecified tic disorder).
