(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.
Vellication
Definition:
() The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
() A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber, especially of the face.