Usually means: Grinning expression caused by spasms.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (risus sardonicus)

noun:  A rictus grin; an abnormal sustained spasm of the facial muscles that appears to produce grinning, characteristic of tetanus and of strychnine poisoning.

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