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Definition of Spasticities
1. spasticity [n] - See also: spasticity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spasticities
Literary usage of Spasticities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... may help the spasticities in some patients. At the present time, nothing is
known that will stop the advance of the disorder. ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"Hyperactivity of the reflexes, the child starting and twitching in response to
mild or normal stimuli, with the development of spasticities, and focal or ..."
3. 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 (1920)
"... a few days a certain flabbiness of the muscles of the left upper extremity,
instead of the expected spasticities because of the central paralysis. ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"The method in itself may also be curative in certain hysterical or neurotic
conditions; dramatically so for spasticities or contractures involving the lower ..."
5. Tumors of the Nervus Acusticus and the Syndrome of the Cerebellopontile Angle by Harvey Cushing (1917)
"Others, who have written on the subject, have described contralateral spasticities
with clonus and a positive Babinski plantar response, but this must be ..."
6. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1921)
"... in this paper is treatment of congenital club foot, and I will not deal with
acquired club foot—the result of poliomyelitis or the various spasticities. ..."
7. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1909)
"The surgical treatment of athetosis and spasticities by muscle group isolation
is suggested by SI Schwab and N. ..."
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