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spasmolysis |
spasmolytic |
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spastic
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| spastic bladder
| spastic colon
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spastic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spastic has 1 sense
- spastic(n = noun.person) Array - a person suffering from spastic paralysis; Array is a kind of paralytic
Adjective spastic has 3 senses
- spastic(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon"; "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy" Derived forms noun spastic paralysis1, noun spasticity1
- spastic(s = adj.all) Array - suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child" Derived forms noun spastic paralysis1, noun spasticity1
- spastic(s = adj.all) convulsive, spasmodic - affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" Derived form noun spasticity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
spastic, a. [L. spasticus, Gr. , fr. to draw: cf. F. spastique. See Spasm.].
Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spastic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 Med. suffering from cerebral palsy with spasm of the muscles.
2 offens. weak, feeble, incompetent.
3 spasmodic.
--n. Med. a spastic person.
--adj.
1 Med. suffering from cerebral palsy with spasm of the muscles.
2 offens. weak, feeble, incompetent.
3 spasmodic.
--n. Med. a spastic person.
Derivative
spastically adv. spasticity n.
Etymology
L spasticus f. Gk spastikos pulling f. spao pull
THESAURUS
spastic
apoplectic, arthritic, broken, capricious, careening, case, cataclysmic, catchy, choppy, consumptive, convulsive, desultory, deviative, disastrous, disconnected, discontinuous, dyspeptic, eccentric, eclamptic, epileptic, erratic, fidgety, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, incurable, inpatient, intermittent, intermitting, invalid, irregular, jerking, jerky, jiggety, jumpy, lurching, nonuniform, orgasmic, outpatient, paroxysmal, patchy, patient, rambling, rheumatic, rough, saltatory, scrappy, seismic, shut-in, sick person, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sufferer, terminal case, the sick, twitchety, twitching, twitchy, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, upheaving, valetudinarian, variable, veering, vellicative, wandering, wavering, wobbling, wobbly
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