protospasm

protospasm

(1) Jacksonian seizure, see there. 
(2) A nonspecific term for any muscular spasm that begins in one site and spreads to the rest of the body.

protospasm

(prō′tō-spăzm) [Gr. protos, first, + spasmos, a convulsion] A spasm beginning in one area and extending to other parts.