They help break up mucus and congestion in the chest and reduce spasmodic coughs. (wellnessmama.com)
If you believe your actors are capable of conveying emotion and nuance, you don't shoot them in sexy angles and luxury car commercial colour schemes while trying to drown them out in spasmodic torrents of empty, manipulative noise. (filmfreakcentral.net)
Of the other colts in the field only Dartmouth and Big John had any reason to be there, and Big John was nearly eliminated when he suffered spasmodic colic the evening before The Hambletonian. (si.com)