2. Verb. (third-person singular of spasm) ¹
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Definition of Spasms
1. spasm [v] - See also: spasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spasms
Literary usage of Spasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"spasms IN THE MUSCLES OF THE SHOULDER AND ARM Clonic spasms in the upper extremity
... They sometime* seem to be of reflex origin, as in the clonic spasms ..."
2. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1895)
"Functional spasms.—There are spasms that take place in various parts of the body,
sometimes clonic spasms, sometimes tonic spasms, which occur without ..."
3. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"spasms may be clonic or tonic. In clonic spasms the muscles are agitated by ...
In tonic spasms the muscles are rigidly set, and retain for a time their ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The spasms of the clitoris occur at frequent intervals and may be accompanied by
ejaculations of mucus, or by spasms of the constrictor cunni, ..."
5. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"Some observations tend to show a rheumatic origin of these spasms. Kocher desires
to separate trismus from hysteric spasms, calling the first an idiopathic ..."
6. Special Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Domestic Animals by Ferenc Hutyra, Josef Marek (1913)
"In some cases the spasms are not dependent on digestive disturbances, but may arise
... The connection between the heart movements and tho spasms of the ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"parent; the muscles are, on the contrary, when not agitated by the spasms, rather
flabby and hypotonic. The usual attitude of the patient is a bending ..."
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