SPASTICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spasticity mean? 

• SPASTICITY (noun)
  The noun SPASTICITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of moving or acting in spasms

  Familiarity information: SPASTICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPASTICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of moving or acting in spasms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("spasticity" is a kind of...):

fitfulness; jerkiness (the quality of being spasmodic and irregular)

Derivation:

spastic (affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm)

spastic (suffering from spastic paralysis)

spastic (relating to or characterized by spasm)

 Context examples 

Spastic diplegia (Little disease) is the most common subtype, and is characterized by spasticity that is more prominent in the legs than in the arms.

(Cerebral Palsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Signs and symptoms appear early in life and include movement difficulties, muscle hypotonia and spasticity, and dementia.

(Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include developmental delays, spasticity, ataxia, seizures and mental retardation.

(Argininemia, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a slow and progressive clinical course and is characterized by developmental delay, macrocephaly, seizures, dementia and spasticity.

(Alexander Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs are usually not present at birth but develop within the first two years of life and include hypoglycemia from underlying liver dysfunction, failure to thrive, spasticity, myoclonus and seizures.

(Alper Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical features may include pain followed by rapidly progressive neurologic deficits such as extremity weakness, sensory changes, spasticity, and incontinence. (From Innocenzi et al., Clin Neurol Neurosurg 1997 Feb;99(1):1-5)

(Adult Spinal Cord Glioblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Spongy degeneration of central nervous system , spongy degeneration of white matter a rare hereditary form of leukodystrophy of early onset in which widespread demyelination and vacuolation of cerebral white matter gives it a spongy appearance; there is mental retardation, megalocephaly, atony of neck muscles, limb spasticity, and blindness, with death in infancy.

(Canavan Disease, NICHD)

The motor disorder may range from difficulties with fine motor control to severe spasticity (see MUSCLE SPASTICITY) in all limbs.

(Cerebral Palsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)