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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

spastic
    adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon";
           "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
    2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
    3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
       resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a
       spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive,
       spasmodic, spastic]
    n 1: a person suffering from spastic paralysis

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Spastic:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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