Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm.
Occurring in spells and often abruptly.
Синонимы
Examples for "convulsive "
Examples for "convulsive "
1 It might well be convulsive but the economy is strong enough, just.
2 The horse gave a convulsive stagger and fell dead in the shafts.
3 There are two varieties of the disease, the convulsive and the gangrenous.
4 She cried for a long time, the sobs convulsive but also cathartic.
5 The smaller the societies, the more violent and more convulsive their schisms.
1 Results: The common presenting features were spastic limb weakness and back pain.
2 Children with microcephaly had bilateral spastic cerebral palsy; none had normal movements.
3 Plasma biomarkers are needed to guide the genetic testing of spastic paraplegia.
4 Genetically, more than 70 different forms of spastic paraplegias have been characterized.
5 A lolling, spastic idiocy seems to have invaded the space between us.
1 The fire in the cooking-stove in the room crackled at spasmodic intervals.
2 But there's clearly some code or sequence in their movements, however spasmodic .
3 All her movements were spasmodic ; she was on the verge of hysteria.
4 With his one good arm he shook the child in spasmodic jerks.
5 A spasmodic shudder shook the heavy body and it began to sink.
6 At nine o'clock the spasmodic patter of rifles was heard in front.
7 The teeth opened and shut together again with a sudden spasmodic energy.
8 The squeaks and a few spasmodic grunts which succeeded them soon ceased.
9 As we walked on we heard the spasmodic crunching of his hoe.
10 She told her story in a low, spasmodic , and somewhat broken voice.
11 The tommy-gun threw another spasmodic burst at me, way off this time.
12 She crumpled the letter with a sudden, spasmodic clenching of her hand.
13 Coughing and sneezing are sudden and spasmodic expiratory efforts, and generally involuntary.
14 Algitha and her sister made spasmodic remarks, and there were long pauses.
15 A careless, spasmodic hurrying and retarding leads only to flabbiness and inconsequence.
16 That all spasmodic cerebral action is an evil is not perfectly clear.
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Spasmodic в диалектах
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