Spastic - Definition

spastic

adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon";
"spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a
spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive,
spasmodic, spastic]
n 1: a person suffering from spastic paralysis

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