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n.
A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
adv.
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
n.
A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.
a.
Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
n.
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
a.
Same as Spasmodic, a.
n.
A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
n.
The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
n.
A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
v. t.
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
a.
Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
n.
A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
n.
A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
v. t.
A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
n.
A medicine for spasm.
n.
A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
n.
A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
a.
Spasmodic.
n.
The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
v. i.
To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
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