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Definition of Spastics

Spastic
Spastic Spas"tic, a. [L. spasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to draw: cf. F. spastique. See Spasm.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

Meaning of Spastics from wikipedia

- Spasticity (from Gr**** spasmos- 'drawing, pulling') is a feature of altered skeletal muscle performance with a combination of paralysis, increased tendon...
- cerebral palsy. The Scottish Council for the Care of Spastics was founded in 1946, and the Spastics Society, an English charity for people with cerebral...
- disorders, see cerebral palsy Spastic (word), a pejorative used against disabled people Scope (charity), formerly known as The Spastics Society "Spasticus Autisticus"...
- magazine of the National Spastics Society, was published from 1953 to 1958 and became Spastics news: magazine of the National Spastics Society, which ran from...
- Spastics Society of India has since changed names and is currently called ADAPT (Able Disable All People Together). Many of the state level spastics societies...
- progressive stiffness (spasticity) and contraction in the lower limbs. HSP is also known as hereditary spastic paraparesis, familial spastic paraplegia, French...
- Irritable bowel syndrome Other names Spastic colon, nervous colon, mucous colitis, spastic bowel 3D depiction of the pain of IBS Specialty Gastroenterology...
- include spastic diplegia, spastic hemiplegia, spastic quadriplegia, and in cases of single limb involvement, spastic monoplegia. Spastic cerebral palsy affects...
- Spastic gait is a form of gait abnormality. It is caused by lesions in the corticospinal tract. A unilateral spastic gait presents with the affected leg...
- Spastic hemiplegia is a neuromuscular condition of spasticity that results in the muscles on one side of the body being in a constant state of contraction...