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Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..

Stamped :: Stammering (n.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration..

Convulsive :: Convulsive (a.) Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary..

Start :: Start (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort..

Cachunde :: Cachunde (n.) A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic..

Stutter :: Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

Tetanic :: Tetanic (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions..

Volvulus :: Volvulus (n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.

Opopanax :: Opopanax (n.) The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic..

Carminative :: Carminative (a.) Expelling wind from the body; warming; antispasmodic.

Spasm :: Spasm (v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance..

Flounce :: Flounce (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure..

Startish :: Startingly (adv.) By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically.

Larypgismus :: Larypgismus (n.) A spasmodic state of the glottis, giving rise to contraction or closure of the opening..

Convulse :: Convulse (v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain..

Spasmodic :: Spasmodic (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry..

Tetanus :: Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm..

Spasmodic :: Spasmodic (n.) A medicine for spasm.

Opisthotonos :: Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

Spasm :: Spasm (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

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