| ARSACS | autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay |
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| FSP | familial spastic paraplegia; fibrin split products; fibrinogen split products; fine suspended partic... |
| HSP | Health Systems Plan; heat shock protein; hemostatic screening profile; Henoch-Schonlein purpura; her... |
| SPERM | spastic paraplegia-epilepsy-mental retardation [syndrome] |
| SPG | serine phosphoglyceride; spastic paraplegia; splenoportography; sucrose, phosphate, and glutamate; s... |
| spastic abasia | Abasia due to a spastic contraction of the muscles when an attempt is made to walk. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| spastic anaemia | Local anaemia resulting from nontransitory contraction of the arterial vessels in the affected region. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic colitis | See Syndrome, irritable bowel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spastic colon | A bowel disorder with no demonstrable organic abnormality. Often referred to as a functional bowel disorder or spastic colon. Symptoms include episodic, crampy abdominal pains often related to anxiety. (27 Sep 1997) |
| spastic diplegia | A type of cerebral palsy in which there is bilateral spasticity, with the lower extremities more severely affected. Compare: flaccid paralysis. Synonym: Erb-Charcot disease, infantile diplegia, Little's disease, spastic spinal paralysis, tabes spasmodica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic dysarthria | Dysarthria caused by lesions along the corticobulbar tracts. Synonym: rigid dysarthria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic dysphonia | A spasmodic contraction of the intrinsic muscles of the larynx excited by attempted phonation, producing either adductor or abductor subtypes caused by central nervous system disease. A localised form of movement disorder. Synonym: phonic spasm, spastic dysphonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic ectropion | Ectropion of the lower eyelid as a result of ocular irritation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic entropion | Entropion that arises from excessive contracture of the orbicularis oculi muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic flat foot | Eversion of the foot with spasm of the muscles (peroneal) on the outer side; often associated with abnormal bars of bone cartilage or fibrous tissue between the calcaneum and the navicular (scaphoid) or between the navicular and the talus, resulting in a tarsal coalition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic gait | Gait in which the leg is stiff, without flexion at knee and ankle, and with each step is rotated away from the body, then towards it, forming a saemicircle. Synonym: circumduction gait, spastic gait. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic hemiplegia | A hemiplegia with increased tone in the antigravity muscles of the affected side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic ileus | Intestinal obstruction due to spastic contraction of a segment of the bowel. Synonym: spastic ileus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic mydriasis | Pupillary dilation due to contraction of the dilator muscle of the pupil induced by adrenergic drugs or by stimulation of the sympathetic pathway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic paraplegia | Paresis of the lower extremities with increased muscle tone and spasmodic contraction of the muscles. Synonym: Erb-Charcot disease. (05 Mar 2000) |