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Definition of Spastic

1. Noun. A person suffering from spastic paralysis.

2. Adjective. Relating to or characterized by spasm. "Spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"

3. Adjective. Suffering from spastic paralysis. "A spastic child"

4. Adjective. Affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm. "Spastic movements"

Definition of Spastic

1. a. Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

Definition of Spastic

1. Adjective. (pathology) Of, relating to, or affected by spasm. ¹

2. Adjective. (pathology) Of or relating to spastic paralysis. ¹

3. Adjective. (slang pejorative) Clumsy. ¹

4. Adjective. (slang pejorative) Hyperactive, excited, and random manner. ¹

5. Noun. A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy. ¹

6. Noun. (slang offensive) A stupid, clumsy person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spastic

1. one suffering from spastic paralysis (a paralysis with muscle spasms) [n -S]

Medical Definition of Spastic

1. 1. Of the nature of or characterised by spasms. 2. Hypertonic, so that the muscles are stiff and the movements awkward. 3. A person exhibiting spasticity, such as occurs in spastic paralysis or in cerebral palsy. Origin: Gr. Spastikos (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spastic

spasmolysis spasmolytic spasmolytics spasmoneme spasmophilia spasmophilic spasmophilic diathesis spasms spasmus spasmus caninus

spasmus coordinatus spasmus glottidis spasmus nictitans spasmus nutans spastastic spastic (current term) spastic abasia spastic anaemia spastic bladder spastic colitis

spastic colon spastic diplegia spastic dysarthria spastic dysphonia spastic ectropion spastic entropion spastic flat foot spastic gait spastic hemiplegia spastic ileus

Literary usage of Spastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Paresis, and ultimately complete paralysis of the extremities, which may be either flaccid or spastic. 3. Increased, decreased, or normal tendon reflexes. ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1901)
"A majority of instances of spastic paralysis of adults not the result of slow compression of the cord are associated with syphilis and belong to this group. ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1912)
"Beginning in the legs with characteristic spastic gait and all the features of an ordinary spinal paralysis, the disease may extend and affect the arms, ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"Paresis, and ultimately complete paralysis of the extremities, which may be :ither flaccid or spastic. 3. Increased, decreased, or normal tendon reflexes. ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"JC Hereditary spastic Spinal Paralysis.—Strum- pell (Deutsche Zeitschr. f. ... After many years the disease passes, as a rule, into a true spastic paresis ..."

6. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1903)
"A majority of instances of spastic paralysis of adults not the result of slow compression of the cord are associated with syphilis and belong to this group. ..."

7. Repressive Legislation of the Republic of South Africa by Elizabeth S. Landis, United Nations Unit on Apartheid (1898)
"A majority of instances of spastic paralysis of adults not the result of slow compression of the cord are associated with syphilis and belong to this group ..."

8. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"This demonstrated that the clinical picture of spastic spinal paralysis is primarily merely the consequence of an interruption of the motor tracts, ..."

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