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v. t.
A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.
n.
A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
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.
Same as Spasmodic, a.
n.
A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
n.
A medicine for spasm.
a.
Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
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.
n.
The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
n.
A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.
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.
n.
A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.
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The spasmodic ejection of matter from the stomach through the mouth.
adv.
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.
a.
Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
v. i.
To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.
a.
Spasmodic.
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.
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