(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.
Tremor
Definition:
(v.) A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(2) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(3) Starting from the observation that the part above 6 Hz of the power spectrum of force tremor during isometric contractions can be related to the unfused twitches of motor units firing asynchronously, an attempt was made to study the usefulness of force tremor spectral analysis as a global descriptor of motoneurone pool activity.
(4) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(5) Several images of cerebral blood flow were recorded during inhalation of carbon-15-labelled carbon dioxide by positron emission tomography in four patients with essential tremor and four normal controls.
(7) This contrasting pattern may be secondary to a reduction in the intensity of mean muscular tremor in the clonidine group.
(8) Tremors induced by chemical agents (nicotine, zinc and tremorine) were markedly inhibited by HA-966.
(9) Patients manifesting tardive dyskinesia tended to have fewer parkinsonian symptoms than those without the disorder, especially when tremors and akathisia were excluded from consideration.
(10) A dose-dependent increase in tremor was observed for each of the doses of fenoterol.
(11) In PD, affected individuals show slowed movements, tremor, and rigidity.
(12) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(13) A 30 days therapeutical trial with trazodone has been performed in 47 patients suffering from different types of tremor.
(14) No subject reported side effects of oxitropium, as compared to three subjects reporting nausea, vomiting and tremors after theophylline.
(15) Acetylcholine (0.1-10 mug) produced a dose-dependent potentiation of oxotremorine tremor in contrast to the multiphasic effect it had on the accompanying hypothermia.
(16) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
(17) Toxicity included an increase in body weight, cushingoid effects, muscle cramps, and tremors in both groups.
(18) The authors present ten cases of essential tremor, studied before and after administration of clonidine with clinical tests and electrophysiological recordings.
(19) A cat which developed a change of temperament, with muscle tremors, ataxia and pupillary dilatation was suspected and later confirmed histopathologically to have a spongiform encephalopathy.
(20) A 63-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with tremor and somnolence, followed soon by coma.