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Spastic

noun
1.
A person suffering from spastic paralysis.
adjective
1.
Relating to or characterized by spasm.  "Spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
2.
Suffering from spastic paralysis.
3.
Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm.  Synonyms: convulsive, spasmodic.  "His body made a spasmodic jerk" , "Spastic movements"



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"Spastic" Quotes from Famous Books



... limbs, and a constriction about the chest and abdomen, which had steadily increased in severity. Sharp attacks left distinct bruise-marks at the seat of pain each time. Could not empty bladder. Gait feeble, spastic, and paralytic, could not mount steps at all or stand without aid, sway very great. Knee-jerks and muscle-jerks increased, especially on left; ankle-clonus; very slight loss of touch-acuity in lower half of body. Eyes: muscles and eye-grounds negative; pupils equal and active. Bladder could ...
— Fat and Blood - An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria • S. Weir Mitchell
 
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... symmetrical on the two sides. There is no evidence of paralysis of the facial muscles. In fact, the cranial nerves, by detailed examination, are intact, except in so far as respiration and speech are concerned. The right leg is held entirely spastic, the muscles on both sides of the joints, that is, flexors and extensors, being equally contracted. It is impossible to bend this leg at any joint except by the use of very great force. The reflexes everywhere are lively but are equal on the two sides, and none of ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
 
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... Then the mother forbade it, and the father whipped her several times for doing it; since then it has been done more furtively, but the mother has none the less often seen it done. When the child is in bed she plays with the genital organs with her fingers. A definite orgasm occurs: there are spastic twitchings of the whole body, the eyes brighten, the respiratory rhythm changes; all these changes, occurring as they do in association with the artificial stimulation of the genital organs, combine to prove that we have not to do here with ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll
 
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... it may be found necessary to divide the hamstring tendons to rectify spastic contraction of the muscles; but this can generally be done quite ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell
 
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