Sentences with phrase «of spastic»

If a baby appears «stiff,» this may indicate hypertonia (increased muscle tone), which is the hallmark of spastic cerebral palsy.

As the name implies, mixed cerebral palsy is not characterized by one predominant muscle tone, but rather a combination of spastic and dyskinetic movements.

Nudd's videos are endless cycles of spastic rupturing of gunk and goo, reflecting Nudd's artistic practice as a whole.

Savannah is non-verbal, non-mobile and shows symptoms of spastic cerebral palsy, such as thrashing and biting.

The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundmix is almost belligerently unassuming; one of the voices heard on the disc's yak - track swells with pride as he quotes a review for The Clearing that said it was «not for the ADD crowd,» and though I, too, am tired of spastic editing and volcanic bass for the sake of it, surely there's a happy medium?

Given a series that's been scored by the likes of David Newman and John Powell, Debney quickly establishes his own brightly identifiable symphonic palette that's still well in line with the past soundtracks» frenetic energy, with friendly, pokey rhythms and busts of spastic comic energy that also bring to mind Debney's score to «Liar Liar.»

Tyrannosaur opens with the sight of vicious bastard Joseph (Peter Mullan) killing his dog in a fit of spastic kicking rage, an act of cruelty so horrible that actor Paddy Considine's film immediately telegraphs its forthcoming nowhere - to - go - but - up trajectory.

Many animals showed fairly long periods of forward movement before suffering a bout of spastic kinking, followed by progressive forward movement.

The unc - 9:: gfp construct partially rescued uncoordinated locomotion in unc - 9 (fc16)-- hermaphrodites exhibit wild - type forward movement interrupted with bouts of spastic kinking.

She has a mild case of spastic quadraplegia and still can't sit on her own althu she is almost 15 months old.

I let my kids watch some clips and they really liked it (they totally dug the «kid» hosts) and I liked it, too, because it was remarkably devoid of spastic, screaming, anthropomorphic cartoon animals (or sponges) and it's not dumbed down to the point of tedium.

Not exact matches

Lightbody, clearly delighted by the crowd's boisterous reception, was a spastic source of motion, punishing his guitar and performing his vocals with the earnest energy of a man who knows his band's time has come.

If we were able to conduct a survey of those human beings who are giving the most devoted service to people in need, whether it is to the blind, the deaf and dumb, the leper, the spastic or any other of our afflicted fellow human beings, I am confident that we should find the Christians in the majority.

«They are recognizable, those who dominate their own self - knowledge, by the spastic pressure of the lips, the spastic tension of the muscles of the hand and the spastic tread of the foot.

We can think of the problem of cancer or of poliomyelitis, of the increasing number of people who are mentally sick, of the thousands of broken homes, of the juvenile delinquent, and of the special problems of the blind, the deaf, the dumb, the spastic and the mentally defective.

In spite of these acknowledgments, Brown's dialectic in practice is the spastic, «circumventing» one of his original definition.

Great news: Plastic Spastic Perry - aton has no chance of being elected.

Here are the words of Jeeney Ray, (8) a spastic girl who is an orphan and who has had few experiences of intimacy in her life time.

To make matters worse for him, the house was steadily filling with the smell of fresh - baked cookies (while I did spastic dance moves perfectly imitated Beyoncé with a whisk mic), but all the while, he knew he couldn't eat them.

The pup ran spastic, looping circles ahead of us, stopping every few yards to look back and make sure we were following.

I saw the video clip of the Ox acting like a muppet before running out on to the pitch, that spastic dance and mentality, just about sums «things» up at Arsenal??

And if it makes you feel any better, my 14 year old's first sign that he's getting sick has always been that he gets incredibly mean the day before, my 9 year old's first sign of illness is that he is spastic and gets in trouble for doing impulsive things all.day.long.

If your child finds this activity frustrating and you end up with a spastic, wet tantrum instead of a delightful science lesson, please don't blame me.

The infant boy suffered from partial paralysis and spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy.

In all patients, BoNTA was injected into spastic muscles of the affected upper limb (maximum total dose: 240 units).

A total of 14 post-stroke patients with spastic upper limb hemiparesis (mean age of 54.9 + / - 9.2 years, time after onset: 87.1 + / - 48.2 months, + / - SD) were included in this study.

However, the toxin is also used to treat migraine headaches, involuntary contraction of the eye muscles, overactive bladder syndrome, excessive sweating and spastic disorders associated with injury or disease.

These 15 individuals comprise ten females and five males, and all have intellectual disability with delayed speech, a history of febrile and / or non-febrile seizures, and a wide - based, spastic, and / or stiff - legged gait.

Basically, lack of mineral absorption, lack of muscle tone, what is called a spastic colon, and issues with the digestive system that indicated the need for, shall we say, a bit of an overhaul combined with a bit of time off from the hard chargedness of my life.

If the muscles are not functioning properly or are hypertonic / spastic they are actually producing a host of negative byproducts directly from the muscles themselves as well as through crosstalk to other endocrine tissues via mechanisms related to cytokine / myokine function.

In general, the full spectrum of muscle function can range from very loose muscles that are grossly weak with no perceivable contraction, to the other extreme of hypertonic or very tight, spastic muscles.

Most individuals use the term «stiff» to describe lack of mobility, lack of rhythmic motion, inability to produce full ROM, and spastic muscles that are essentially knotted up as a result of dysfunctional movement.

The name of this disorder is a misnomer as the bowel is not always irritable as the name implies; it can be spastic.

In addition Charcoal tablets have therapeutic value in the treatment of patients with irritable bowel syndrome > also known as spastic colon, a condition in a sense similar to stomach cramps.

It's like this combination of like spastic yoga breathing and like this almost like what do you call it, shamanic breathing pattern that's like breathing in and like hyperventilating and breathing out really fast.

I'm naturally sort of a weirdo so of course I gravitate towards the most spastic exotic looking puppy I can find.

So, in this little gem, not only do I look like I'm in mid-sentence and having a case of «spastic arms», but I have a nice little layer of lipstick on my teeth!

Pontypridd, South Wales About Blog Living with the effects of having a neurological condition; brain stem lesion and spastic paraparesis.

A spastic, whirlwind trip through blinding - daylight revelations and throbbing - headache disbelief, «Hangover» is a perfect vehicle for Phillips to run amok with hilarious disasters, casino misfortune, and extensive stupidity, rebuilding his wounded confidence with material that cherishes the art of the surprise.

no obnoxious spastic hyperactive button mashing, no life meter, no score, just pure artistic atmosphere and ingenuity ahead of its time.

A spastic, whirlwind trip through blinding - daylight revelations and throbbing - headache disbelief, â $ œHangoverâ $ is a perfect vehicle for Phillips to run amok with hilarious disasters, casino misfortune, and extensive stupidity, rebuilding his wounded confidence with material that cherishes the art of the surprise.

It's the same spastic - type kids with the same silly jokes, and if there is one big difference between the two films, it's that the second film doesn't have the added benefit of being a nostalgia film extolling the virtue of the grand national pastime, baseball.

Murphy, once sort of appealing as either her trademark tramp or hallmark mental patient (she's a little of both in Just Married), allows her desperation to save this project to transform her into a spastic homunculus, her manic transformations from Cheshire grin to howling lament not aided by eleventh - hour edits that sacrifice (again like Orange County) whole segments glimpsed in the promotional campaign in the hope that a reckless pace will mask its witless devices.

Hyperbole aside, I am well aware that this tour - de-force opening credit sequence does not play nearly to the effect of seeing this on a massive screen, but for sheer insanity (and complete lack of practicality), I offer them to you in all their garish, electronic, spastic, GLORY!

The vocal performances range from monotone drone (Romano, Leary, and Goran Visnjic as the evil sabretooth) to spastic (Leguizamo, of course, and Wedge)-- leading me to wonder if Ice Age could be read with more profit as an underground stoner comedy — and the action set - pieces run out of imagination long before they're allowed to fizzle out.

However, Judge and co-writer Etan Cohen dotted every appealingly cheap scene with spastic sight gags and offered examples of cultural decay that were fiendishly hilarious and frighteningly plausible (e.g., a TV show called «Ow!

Ladies and gentlemen, the stylings of Tracy Letts... * Timothée Chalamet's spastic lunges, Call Me by Your Name; extra spin after reading Oliver's «I'll see you at midnight» note... * Arthritic fingers keying a linotype, The Post... * A Ghost Story: play of afternoon sun / shadow in lower corner of frame as M (Rooney Mara) picks at, then wolfs down chocolate pie.

The rest of it is run - of - the - mill: bloopers, trailers, deleted scenes, a spastic behind - the - scenes featurette, and a rather pointless music video.

He gazed with those overflowing, rich chestnut eyes at the carnal lusciousness of a young Julie Christie and trusted that sheer presence could hold the whole thing together, but he took some critical brickbats for his Zhivago (his heart attack scene as he sees Christie's Lara again at the end of the movie was particularly unconvincing and spastic).

Williams, who only breaks into his spastic brand of humor in one scene, makes one of his better dramatic turns here and Perry, Hawke, Hansen, Charles, and Smith are all believable and effective in their respective roles.