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Meanings of spastic in English

Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm.

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Usage of spastic in English
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Results: The common presenting features were spastic limb weakness and back pain.
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Children with microcephaly had bilateral spastic cerebral palsy; none had normal movements.
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Plasma biomarkers are needed to guide the genetic testing of spastic paraplegia.
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Genetically, more than 70 different forms of spastic paraplegias have been characterized.
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A lolling, spastic idiocy seems to have invaded the space between us.
The Quiet Earth
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He tried to repeat the sound, but his unaccustomed tongue became spastic.
More Than Human
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Purpose of review: Hereditary spastic paraplegias are a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases.
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Likewise, sweet and docile children become spastic hellions upon boarding a commercial airliner.
Reuters
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This spastic nature was further exacerbated by the egregious behaviour of the superpowers.
After the Rain : how the West lost the East
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They whipped across the hall this time, fluid and spastic, aiming for nothing.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
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Six of the nineteen patients continued to have spastic paraplegia and were wheelchair-dependent.
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It was a choppy, spastic movement, but he dared not trust his voice.
Field of Dishonor
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A very large dilatation of the thoracic esophagus indicates spastic stenosis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy / A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy a...
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Again, it seemed to move, brief, spastic flutterings of cloth-ofarms.
The bourne identity
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Palsied, crippled, catatonic, spastic, Trapis tended them all with equal and unending patience.
The Name of the Wind
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In spastic mutant mice, the glycine-receptor labeling of the IPL was reduced markedly.
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Spastic through the time
Spastic across language varieties
United States of America
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