What's the difference between spasmodic and vellication?

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.

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.

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