spastic

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Knowing how these molecular machines work may be key to understanding and treating motoneuron diseases such as multiple sclerosis and spastic paraplegia.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024

The most common type is spastic diplegia, which Diviney is diagnosed with.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023

Carter was diagnosed with a form of cerebral palsy called spastic diplegia when he was 18 months old.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2022

Ellingen, 37, has athetoid spastic cerebral palsy because of complications at birth.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022

Horace had at first offered the conjecture in his notes that the deceased’s larynx had clamped down—a spastic closure—to prevent liquid from reaching the deeper air passages.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson