Word Meanings - HYPERKINESIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

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• SPASMODIC
  Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma. 2. Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry. Spasmodic croup , an affection of childhood
• SPASMATICAL
  Spasmodic.
• INCREASINGLY
  More and more.
• INCREASE
  To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• SPASM
  An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers. Note: Spasm are usually either clonic or tonic. In clonic spasm, the muscles or muscular fibers contract and relax alternately in very quick succession. In tonic
• MUSCULARIZE
  To make muscular. Lowell.
• MUSCULARITY
  The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.
• INCREASABLE
  Capable of being increased. Sherwood. -- In*creas"a*ble*ness, n. An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas. Bp. Law.
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• ABNORMALLY
  In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.
• MUSCULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. Macaulay. 2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle
• INCREASER
  One who, or that, increases.
• MUSCULARLY
  In a muscular manner.
• INCREASEFUL
  Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." Shak.
• SPASMODICAL
  See ADV
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• NERVOMUSCULAR
  Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
• IDIOMUSCULAR
  Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
• SUBMUSCULAR
  Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
• UNIMUSCULAR
  Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
• ANTISPASMODIC
  Good against spasms. -- n.