| 单词 | spastic |
| 释义 | spastic (once / 42062 pages) adjn A spastic motion is jerky and convulsive. This word also applies to people suffering from spastic paralysis. Have you ever had a muscle spasm? Then you know what it's like to have a muscle move jerkily on its own. That kind of unpredictable, uncontrolled movement is called spastic. Anyone could have a spastic muscle briefly, but some people have spastic paralysis, in which their muscles are permanently out of their control and difficult to use. People with this condition have sometimes been called spastics, but that term is now offensive and should be avoided. WORD FAMILYspastic: spastically, spasticity, spastics USAGE EXAMPLESIt rose, fell, found a spastic path to her mouth. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) Today, it’s often the first stop in research into a wide range of human illnesses, including Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, spastic paraplegia, cancer and obesity. The Guardian(Sep 25, 2016) In her thirties, one doctor suggested cerebral palsy, and she later got a diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegia, but no one was certain. Nature(Sep 06, 2016) 1adj relating to or characterized by spasm a spastic colon spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy 2adj affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm spastic movements Syn convulsive, spasmodic unsteady subject to change or variation 3adj suffering from spastic paralysis a spastic child Syn ill, sick affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function 4n a person suffering from spastic paralysis Hyper paralytic a person suffering from paralysis |
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