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spæˈstɪs ɪ tispas·tic·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spasticitynoun

    the quality of moving or acting in spasms

Wiktionary

  1. spasticitynoun

    The state, quality or property of being spastic.

Wikipedia

  1. Spasticity

    Spasticity (from Greek spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon reflex activity, and hypertonia. It is also colloquially referred to as an unusual "tightness", stiffness, or "pull" of muscles. Clinically, spasticity results from the loss of inhibition of motor neurons, causing excessive velocity-dependent muscle contraction. This ultimately leads to hyperreflexia, an exaggerated deep tendon reflex. Spasticity is often treated with the drug baclofen, which acts as an agonist at GABA receptors, which are inhibitory. Spastic cerebral palsy is the most common form of cerebral palsy, which is a group of permanent movement problems that do not get worse over time. GABA's inhibitory actions contribute to baclofen's efficacy as an anti-spasticity agent.

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  1. spasticity

    Spasticity is a condition characterized by continuous contraction of certain muscles, leading to stiffness or tightness that can interfere with normal movement, speech, and gait. It is often associated with conditions such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, or spinal cord or brain injuries.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spasticitynoun

    a state of spasm

  2. Spasticitynoun

    the tendency to, or capability of suffering, spasm

Wikidata

  1. Spasticity

    Spasticity is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance in muscle tone involving hypertonia; it is also referred to as an unusual "tightness", stiffness, or "pull" of muscles. The word spasm comes from the Greek word σπασμός, meaning "drawing, pulling." Clinically spasticity is defined as velocity dependent resistance to stretch, where a lack of inhibition results in excessive contraction of the muscles, ultimately leading to hyperflexia. It mostly occurs in disorders of the central nervous system impacting the upper motor neuron in the form of a lesion, such as spastic diplegia, but it can also present in various types of multiple sclerosis, where it occurs as a symptom of the progressively-worsening attacks on myelin sheaths and is thus unrelated to the types of spasticity present in neuromuscular cerebral palsy rooted spasticity disorders. The clinical underpinnings of two of the most common spasticity conditions, spastic diplegia and multiple sclerosis, can be described as follows: in spastic diplegia, the upper motor neuron lesion arises often as a result of neonatal asphyxia, while in conditions like multiple sclerosis, spasticity is thought by some to be as a result of the autoimmune destruction of the myelin sheaths around nerve endings — which in turn can mimic the gamma amino butyric acid deficiencies present in the damaged nerves of spastic diplegics, leading to roughly the same presentation of spasticity, but which clinically is fundamentally different from the latter.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spasticity in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spasticity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of spasticity in a Sentence

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    After the short cryotherapy stimulation, the effects last from six to eight hours, where the muscle spasticity is being reduced, when you feel endorphins release and adrenaline release. Then if you do 10-20 treatments, the effects last around two to three months.

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