spastic paralysis

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Mr. Brugger admitted that he was himself guilty of using Mr. Nossell, who suffers from spastic paralysis and uses a wheelchair, as a kind of test case.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2010

A fourth source of irritation has resulted from her recently acquired interest in spastic paralysis, a disease in which damaged nerves cause uncoordinated movements.

From Time Magazine Archive

In several cases of spastic paralysis he succeeded in picking out in the nerve-trunk of the affected limb the nerve bundles supplying the spastic muscles, and, by resecting portions of them, in relieving the spasm.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Movements, co-ordinate, in ataxia, 204. in paralysis agitans, 231. in paraplegia, 223. in spastic paralysis, 226.

From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by Mitchell, John K.

There is sometimes unilateral or even bilateral spastic paralysis of the limbs from pressure on the medulla oblongata.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander