spastic

spastic
    adj 1: relating to or characterized by spasm; "a spastic colon";
           "spastic paralysis is a spastic form of cerebral palsy"
    2: suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
    3: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
       resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body made a
       spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: {convulsive},
       {spasmodic}, {spastic}]
    n 1: a person suffering from spastic paralysis
    

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.
   [1913 Webster]
    

88 Moby Thesaurus words for "spastic":
      apoplectic, arthritic, broken, capricious, careening, case,
      cataclysmic, catchy, choppy, consumptive, convulsive, desultory,
      deviative, disastrous, disconnected, discontinuous, dyspeptic,
      eccentric, eclamptic, epileptic, erratic, fidgety, fitful,
      flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky,
      heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, incurable, inpatient,
      intermittent, intermitting, invalid, irregular, jerking, jerky,
      jiggety, jumpy, lurching, nonuniform, orgasmic, outpatient,
      paroxysmal, patchy, patient, rambling, rheumatic, rough, saltatory,
      scrappy, seismic, shut-in, sick person, snatchy, spasmatic,
      spasmic, spasmodic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, sufferer,
      terminal case, the sick, twitchety, twitching, twitchy, uncertain,
      unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical,
      unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, upheaving, valetudinarian,
      variable, veering, vellicative, wandering, wavering, wobbling,
      wobbly