(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.
Spastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(2) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(3) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(4) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(5) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
(6) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(7) The authors elaborated differentiated complexes of rehabilitative treatment for patients with spastic hemiparesis, normal or decreased tone, as well as for patients with transient disorders of cerebral circulation in conditions of a cardiological sanatorium.
(8) One patient was spastic and two others were athetotic.
(9) Certain pediatric patients and neonates, especially those with spastic neurogenic bladders or those who have had bilateral ureteral reimplantation, are more susceptible to this form of urinary obstruction.
(10) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.
(11) Further, CT-scan in families with spastic paraparesis may be of help in detecting early evidence of an underlying diffuse white matter disorder, eventually supported by more conclusive studies as VLCFA determinations.
(12) Because of laboratory and clinical observation that recurrent nerve paralysis retracts the involved vocal cord from the midline, it was proposed that deliberate section of the recurrent nerve would improve the vocal quality of patients with spastic dysphonia.
(13) Our results thus indicated that repeated applications of TENS can reduce clinical spasticity and improve control of reflex and motor functions in hemiparetic subjects.
(14) A case of acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) with spastic paralysis of the lower extremities caused by a tumor of the spinal cord as the first symptoms of the disease is presented.
(15) On this basis, afloqualone might be expected to exhibit moderate myotonolytic activity in rheumatological indications, but to be of questionable value in spasticity.
(16) We evaluated 38 noninstitutionalized patients with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy with 51 dislocated hips.
(17) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(18) The intensity of spasticity was measured electromyographically by the amplitude of the stretch reflex at various velocities, and the results were correlated with those obtained by clinical assessment.
(19) These findings suggested that longer-term TENS may be effective in reducing hemiparetic spasticity.
(20) There was left spastic hemiparesis with hemisensory disturbance and he could not walk without help for the maked spasticity.