spastic
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Knowing how these molecular machines work may be key to understanding and treating motoneuron diseases such as multiple sclerosis and spastic paraplegia.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
The most common type is spastic diplegia, which Diviney is diagnosed with.
From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023
Ellingen, 37, has athetoid spastic cerebral palsy because of complications at birth.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022
"Cerebral palsy is literally classified as spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, which basically means that I have spasticity, or tightness, in my legs specifically," she told the BBC.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2022
Volt was not doing well—“almost spastic in his terror,” Dalgard would later recall, but it wasn’t any different from the way Dalgard felt.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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