spasmodic

How To Use spasmodic In A Sentence

• Rub a bit of peppermint oil directly onto your forehead; it acts as an antispasmodic.
• With a lot of prodding and poking and pushing and cajoling, it set off with a spasmodic jerk.
• It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• Here's the thing that comes along to complicate any strict feminist criticism of objectification in the images of Prommenschenckel lying prone: She has a condition known as spasmodic torticollis. Miss Ability lays down on the job
• Native Americans have long used cramp bark, an aptly named antispasmodic herb, to relieve menstrual cramps.
• Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis. NYT > Home Page
• Now, as any neurologist knows, spasmodic torticollis is the bane of a neurologist, a most unrewarding condition to treat; after a few visits, both neurologist and patient end up equally depressed.
• Her chin began a spasmodic quivering and the tears sprang into her eyes.
• Macrotys is unique in combining emmenagogue (blood moving) and antispasmodic properties.
• The drug was manufactured in the United Kingdom and licensed as an antispasmodic; it was quite inexpensive.