spasm
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Alan's friendship with Adrian, who at the time was a bassist in The Spasm Band, led to him fulfilling his life-long ambition of performing on stage with a band.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023
In June, Kirk will take over Spasso House, the U.S. embassy just a mile from the Kremlin, known to some of the inmates as Spasm House.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Suffocation which arises from a Spasm is not dangerous, it goes off of itself, or it may be treated like Swoonings owing to the same Cause.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
Spasm of the glottis.—This is manifested by a strangling respiration; a wheezing noise is produced in the act of inspiration; extreme anxiety and suffering for want of air.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Medical men, moreover, speak of "Spasm of the glottis," and singing masters of the "Shock of the glottis," which terms are clearly quite meaningless when applied to a space.
From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Behnke, Emil
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