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Answer for the clue "Obsession ", 3 letters:
tic

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Usage examples of tic.

He made no concessions to the warm weather: he wore a black barathea morning suit with a fancy brocaded waistcoat, and a loose tic with a silver pin through the knot.

If damage to the caudate is part of the treatment, why is her tic different?

Johanna thought, moistening her lips as she flipped down the sun visor of her helmet and squinted into the brightness ahead: pale blue sky and white haze and the sun like a blinding tic at the corner of her eye.

Eddie, still racing Hooper down the stretch for the alleged Black Crow, was delighted to find Freud so tight into anal sadism, and developed a facial tic.

Even the most orthodox practitioners had begun to view many forms of illness as internalized behavioral problems--which had always been obvious so far as facial tics, stammers, addictions, and so forth were concerned --and hypnotherapy was proving a useful, inexpensive, effective, and nontoxic form of treatment in many cases: in particular the lowering of blood pressure.

Tinkie had taken Sweetie to a doggy salon and given her a new look, changing her from a brindled red tic hound to a vibrant shade of redbone.

His most troublesome illness was trigeminal neuralgia, sometimes called tic douloureux, a disorder of the fifth cranial nerve.

He had a mental neuralgia, a great deal worse in many respects than tic douloureux confined to the face.

We have already commented, in this connection, on the exacerbation or recurrence of respiratory crises, oculogyric crises, iterative hyperkineses, and tics.

All of us who lived through those days came out the other side mumbling under our breaths, quivering with twitches, tics, and phobias.

We grew tics, which constantly twitched, and harvested and bundled them for the clocks of other folk.

Then I scoured the region, watching for wild tics, and managed to spy one.

Cathbad, his white robe unmarred, stood to watch every wriggle and writhe and jerk, the direction each took, the part of the body involved, clonus of head or arms or shoulders or legs, twitches in the fingers or toes, dying tics in the buttocks.

She knew the pain of these tics because she had witnessed his face recently all the muscles twitching and distorting like some kind of Halloween mask.

Tegg felt a sharp pain in the very top of his skull, and one of his tics hit him hard.