spasmodic
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At a Dr. Jack seminar held in a furniture store, Cheadle’s unrecognizable cameo competes with kids jumping on a couch and a spasmodic massage chair pummeling Corvette’s face.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
My symptoms matched all the descriptions for the rarer form of the disorder, called abductor spasmodic dysphonia.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Laryngeal dystonia, known previously as spasmodic dysphonia, is a rare condition that affects over 50,000 people in the US and Canada.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
He also has a noticeably strained, raspy voice caused by spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder that causes involuntary spasms in the muscles of the voice box.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now' gave utterance.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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