What's the difference between spasm and spasmodic?

Spasm


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (2) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (4) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
  • (5) The coronary arteriography reveals a spasm in the normal left anterior descendens artery.
  • (6) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
  • (7) Thus one may speculate that endothelin plays a role in the coronary spasm which has been shown in patients with angina pectoris.
  • (8) in 1937, the arterial spasm may have occurred at the time of cerebral embolism.
  • (9) Coronary spasm was provoked by ergonovine maleate in four of 12 patients in group A (33%) and in three patients in group B (18%).
  • (10) In 2 cases, sublingual nitroglycerin failed to completely relieve the spasm.
  • (11) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
  • (12) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
  • (13) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
  • (14) Thrombotic occlusion, in association with varying degrees of plaque disruption and coronary artery spasm, represents the major cause of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
  • (15) The patients with spasm on top of a fixed organic lesion underwent a successful aorto-coronary bypass graft together with resection of the pre- and sub-aortic nerve plexus.
  • (16) In vitro tests with isolated trachea or ileum of guinea pigs show that flupirtine possesses no or very weak antagonism against histamine-induced spasms.
  • (17) The spasms were inhibited by gallopamil (100 nM) and diltiazem (1 microM).
  • (18) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
  • (19) Such an exercise response should suggest significant fixed coronary stenosis in addition to coronary spasm.
  • (20) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.

Spasmodic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
  • (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
  • (n.) A medicine for spasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (2) These experimental findings suggest that stereotactic thalamotomy of the ventrolateral nucleus for spasmodic torticollis should be performed on the side ipsilateral to the contracting SCM muscle.
  • (3) The patient (a 46-year-old woman) suffered from a spasmodic quadriplegia, walking was nearly impossible.
  • (4) 4 ng of botulinum type A toxin per eye were applied in the M. orbicularis oculi as first injection in the 18 patients without spasmodic torticollis.
  • (5) Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a low-incidence voice disorder of unknown origin.
  • (6) The first case was a young girl of 16 years of age with a lesion at the D6 level and spasmodic paraparesis.
  • (7) Bilateral TA denervation represents a hopeful new long-term approach to spasmodic dysphonia treatment.
  • (8) The view emerging is that spasmodic dysphonia is a manifestation of disordered motor control involving systems of neurons rather than single anatomical sites.
  • (9) Spasmodic attempts were made to relieve the suffering of Yarmouk’s civilians.
  • (10) To determine the usefulness of EMG-assisted botulinum toxin (BOTOX) injections for the treatment of spasmodic torticollis (ST), we randomized 52 ST patients into two groups and studied them prospectively.
  • (11) Vestibular findings in a group of 35 patients with spasmodic torticollis without other otological or neurological symptoms were reviewed.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescents with "spasmodic" dysmenorrhea (SD) versus "congestive" dysmenorrhea (CD) respond differently to naproxen sodium therapy.
  • (13) Further, he maintained that spasmodic constriction of the rectum resulted from dysfunction of this rectosigmoid sphincter.
  • (14) Of them only 13 (0.26% of the total patient material) were spasmodic bronchitis.
  • (15) The patient, a 22 year old woman, presented with a three-year history, with clinical onset of staged spinal pain and cervicobrachial neuralgia, of spasmodic paraparesis with sensory and sphincter disturbances.
  • (16) The first is a hemolysin (100-200,000 mol.wt) which also causes initial spasmodic contractions in larval and adult specimens of Drosophila.
  • (17) Laser-assisted myomectomy may be a feasible alternative to current methods to treat spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (18) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
  • (19) The concept of MVC might be more convincing if MVD can be shown to cure a condition such as spasmodic torticollis, which cannot be remedied by damage to or section of the same cranial nerve or nerves.
  • (20) The authors describe the anatomical and clinical findings in a case of the pure form of Strümpell Lorrain's familial spasmodic paraplegia.