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Definition of Spastic paralysis

1. Noun. A loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spastic Paralysis

Literary usage of Spastic paralysis

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)
"A majority of instances of spastic paralysis of adults not the result of ... SECONDARY spastic paralysis. Following any lesion of the pyramidal tract we may ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1912)
"A majority of instances of spastic paralysis of adults not the result of slow ... SECONDARY spastic paralysis Following any lesion of the pyramidal tract ..."

3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"SECONDARY spastic paralysis. Following any lesion of the pyramidal tract we may have spastic paralysis; hus, in a transverse lesion of the cord, ..."

4. 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. ..."

5. 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 ... SECONDARY spastic paralysis. Following any lesion of the pyramidal tract we may ..."

6. 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 ... SECONDARY spastic paralysis. Following any lesion of the pyramidal tract we may ..."

7. The Year Book of Pediatrics (1903)
"spastic paralysis. Jones1 says: "It must be left to the surgeon to decide upon the degree of intelligence a patient is possessed of, and whether the degree ..."

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