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UK
/spˈɑːstɪk/
]
[ US /ˈspæstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈspæstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
convulsive motions
his body made a spasmodic jerk
spastic movements -
suffering from spastic paralysis
a spastic child -
relating to or characterized by spasm
a spastic colon
spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy
NOUN
- a person suffering from spastic paralysis
How To Use spastic In A Sentence
- His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
- At 18 months, he was diagnosed with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy that affects balance as well as movement below the waist. The Seattle Times
- A red curtain parts, revealing the Fox logo – it’s very 20th Century – as Alfred Newman’s fanfare is conducted by some tuxedoed spastic. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
- At the age of 95 and still in possession of his mental capacities he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and metastases in the lumbar spine causing a spastic paraparesis.
- I said this already but was called a spastic (something the mod's didn't give a warning for). Cubed3.com News
- Must be nice to be able to play basketball--imagine how his life would be different if he had spastic diplegia. This week's Arneisms
- The avatar customization is embarrassingly low-fi, there's no support for playing your own music from an SD card, and every so often you're mistreated to the grinning, spastic image of Bob Greene, pretending to congratulate you on your incredible accomplishments. Pondering An Effort At Exercise Software
- Compared with those on placebos, patients who received active compounds said they both felt less pain and less muscle spasticity - the spasms characteristic of this neurodegenerative disease.
- The new infrared echo indicates the Cassiopeia A neutron star is active and suggests it may be an exotic, spastic type of object called a magnetar.
