spastic lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• accompanied by or of the nature of paroxysms
• affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm "convulsive motions" "his body made a spasmodic jerk" "spastic movements"
• suffering from spastic paralysis "a spastic child"
• relating to or characterized by spasm "a spastic colon" "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
• a person suffering from spastic paralysis
• A form of muscle hypertonia associated with upper MOTOR NEURON DISEASE. Resistance to passive stretch of a spastic muscle results in minimal initial resistance (a "free interval") followed by an incremental increase in muscle tone. Tone increases in proportion to the velocity of stretch. Spasticity is usually accompanied by HYPERREFLEXIA and variable degrees of MUSCLE WEAKNESS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p54)