0 an occasion when a muscle suddenly becomes tighter in a way that cannot be controlled: --
1 a sudden, uncontrollable tightening of a muscle, or a sudden, burst of activity or energy: --
The rebels’ spasm of resistance was short-lived.
The drug is thought to affect smooth muscle cells in the colon and is, thus, expected to relax the muscles and thereby decrease spasms.
Other symptoms include respiratory spasms and breathing difficulties, hyperexcitability, anxiety, convulsions, profuse salivation, altered perception, acute confusion and aggression leading to coma.
Spasmodic colic from muscle spasms of the intestinal wall tends to be the most common, but luckily the least harmful form of colic in horses.
Two patients had to use apomorphine on a daily basis because of dystonic spasms.
We imposed upon ourselves the spasms that developed inevitably as a symptom of our history.
Of those patients with epilepsy, 60 % (51/85) had a history of infantile spasms.
In those with profound impairment, onset was most commonly before 5 months, and all but two of these individuals had a history of infantile spasms.
The likelihood of impairment was associated with a history of seizures, particularly infantile spasms.
