<adj.pert> a spastic colon spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy
suffering from spastic paralysis
<adj.all> a spastic child
affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
<adj.all> convulsive motions his body made a spasmodic jerk spastic movements
Spastic \Spas"tic\, a. [L. spasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to draw: cf. F. spastique. See {Spasm}.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.
Recently, doctors have found that people with a mysterious disease called chronic progressive myelopathy, or tropical spastic paraparesis, sometimes show signs in their blood of infection with HTLV-I.
However, the word 'spastic' in our name stops people coming to us for support, particularly young families.
Another disease closely linked to the virus, said Murphy, is tropical spastic paraparesis, in which the virus attacks nerve cells that control the lower extremities and causes paralysis and eventually death.