Usually means: Involuntary muscle tightness, stiffness, contraction.
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  1. spasticity: Merriam-Webster
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  3. spasticity: Collins English Dictionary
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  10. spasticity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. Spasticity: Brain Injury
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  16. Spasticity: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. spasticity: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spasticity)

▸ noun:  The state, quality or property of being spastic.

Similar:
spasmodicalness, spaciness, spininess, spaciousness, spinousness, spokiness, stretchiness, spuminess, spinosity, spindliness, more...

Types:
clonic, tonic, spastic, athetoid, choreiform, dystonic, more...

Phrases:
muscle spasticity, clasp-knife spasticity, clasp knife spasticity, inherited periodic spasticity, inherited neonatal spasticity, more...

Adjectives:
severe, spinal, progressive, lower, mild, generalized, muscular, upper, bilateral, moderate, slight

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Similar:
spasmodicalness, spaciness, spininess, spaciousness, spinousness, spokiness, stretchiness, spuminess, spinosity, spindliness, more...

Types:
clonic, tonic, spastic, athetoid, choreiform, dystonic, more...

Phrases:
muscle spasticity, clasp-knife spasticity, clasp knife spasticity, inherited periodic spasticity, inherited neonatal spasticity, inherited progressive spasticity, neonatal spasticity, spasticity of muscle, more...

Adjectives:
severe, spinal, progressive, lower, mild, generalized, muscular, upper, bilateral, moderate, slight



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