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Meanings of spastic in inglês

Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm.

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                Examples for "convulsive"
                1
                It might well be convulsive but the economy is strong enough, just.
                The Irish Times
                2
                The horse gave a convulsive stagger and fell dead in the shafts.
                The Romance of the Coast
                3
                There are two varieties of the disease, the convulsive and the gangrenous.
                Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
                4
                She cried for a long time, the sobs convulsive but also cathartic.
                Toxic
                5
                The smaller the societies, the more violent and more convulsive their schisms.
                Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
                1
                The fire in the cooking-stove in the room crackled at spasmodic intervals.
                Men, Women, and Boats
                2
                But there's clearly some code or sequence in their movements, however spasmodic.
                Complete Books of Blood
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                All her movements were spasmodic; she was on the verge of hysteria.
                At the Villa Rose
                4
                With his one good arm he shook the child in spasmodic jerks.
                Genellan: planetfall
                5
                A spasmodic shudder shook the heavy body and it began to sink.
                A Man Four-Square

                Spastic.

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                        Usage of spastic in inglês
                        1
                        Results: The common presenting features were spastic limb weakness and back pain.
                        Pubmed
                        2
                        Children with microcephaly had bilateral spastic cerebral palsy; none had normal movements.
                        Pubmed
                        3
                        Plasma biomarkers are needed to guide the genetic testing of spastic paraplegia.
                        Pubmed
                        4
                        Genetically, more than 70 different forms of spastic paraplegias have been characterized.
                        Pubmed
                        5
                        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.
                        Pubmed
                        8
                        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.
                        Pubmed
                        12
                        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...
                        14
                        Again, it seemed to move, brief, spastic flutterings of cloth-ofarms.
                        The bourne identity
                        15
                        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.
                        Pubmed
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