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spastic

[spas-tik] / ˈspæs tɪk /






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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

She said her husband, who has spastic cerebral palsy and who uses a motorised wheelchair, was not offered any help by Air Canada crew to get off the plane.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2023

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

From Reuters Mar. 3, 2023

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

From Seattle Times Sep. 14, 2022

Volt was not doing well—“almost spastic in his terror,” Dalgard would later recall, but it wasn’t any different from the way Dalgard felt.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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