spasmodic

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Laryngeal dystonia, known previously as spasmodic dysphonia, is a rare condition that affects over 50,000 people in the US and Canada.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

He said he saw spasmodic dysphonia on a long list of possible side effects.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

Mr Kennedy has a voice disorder, spasmodic dysphonia, which affects the muscles in his voice box.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2023

The dancers moonwalk and roll their necks; their motions are smooth and spasmodic by turns, and several of them present bulging eyes and pained expressions that recall the existential intensity of butoh.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now' gave utterance.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley