spastic paralysis

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Mr. Brugger admitted that he was himself guilty of using Mr. Nossell, who suffers from spastic paralysis and uses a wheelchair, as a kind of test case.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2010

A fourth source of irritation has resulted from her recently acquired interest in spastic paralysis, a disease in which damaged nerves cause uncoordinated movements.

From Time Magazine Archive

In spastic paralysis of cerebral origin, the tendency is towards contracture, usually in the attitude of flexion, with adduction and inversion.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

In several cases of spastic paralysis he succeeded in picking out in the nerve-trunk of the affected limb the nerve bundles supplying the spastic muscles, and, by resecting portions of them, in relieving the spasm.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Lesions in the centrum ovale, which destroy the fibres proceeding from the overlying cortex, produce a corresponding spastic paralysis on the opposite side of the body.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander