Spastic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spastic \Spas"tic\, a. [L. spasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to draw: cf.
     F. spastique. See {Spasm}.] (Med.)
     Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining
     to tonic spasm; tetanic.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spastic
       adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon";
              "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral
              palsy"
       2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
       3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
          resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a
          spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: {convulsive}, {spasmodic}]
       n : a person suffering from spastic paralysis

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "spastic":
     apoplectic, arthritic, broken, capricious, careening, case,
     cataclysmic, catchy, choppy, consumptive, convulsive, desultory,
     deviative, disastrous, disconnected, discontinuous, dyspeptic,
     eccentric, eclamptic, epileptic, erratic, fidgety, fitful,
     flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
     heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, incurable, inpatient,
     intermittent, intermitting, invalid, irregular, jerking, jerky,
     jiggety, jumpy, lurching, nonuniform, orgasmic, outpatient,
     paroxysmal, patchy, patient, rambling, rheumatic, rough, saltatory,
     scrappy, seismic, shut-in, sick person, snatchy, spasmatic,
     spasmic, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sufferer,
     terminal case, the sick, twitchety, twitching, twitchy, uncertain,
     unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical,
     unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, upheaving, valetudinarian,
     variable, veering, vellicative, wandering, wavering, wobbling,
     wobbly