Word: spasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calcium blockers, which have been mainstays of therapy in Europe and Japan for some years but are just now being introduced in the U.S., also promise to deal beneficially with coronary artery spasm, a phenomenon whose importance is becoming more widely recognized. These sudden clampdowns can close arteries that are clear of plaque, leaving no trace, after the vessels relax, that the spasm ever occurred...
They are a greater threat when the arteries are already narrowed. "There are probably some patients with pure atherosclerosis, and some with pure coronary artery spasm," says Braunwald, "but I suspect the majority of patients have both...
...insipid but reptilian nephew, Oscar's son Leo (Dennis Christopher), raids the bank vault and thwarts his uncle. As Horace cradles the all but empty bank box, Regina goads him into a heart spasm and icily denies him the lifesaving pills that are just beyond his reach. After a few more calculated turns of Lillian Hellman's plot screws, Regina proves to be more fearsome than any little...
...woman's beating on a street corner but softens the blows by dissecting and punctuating them-turning the series of hurt faces into studied caricatures. Paul's slow-motion salutory kiss-which finally reaches his daughter's cheek-becomes at once a tortured eternity and a muscle spasm which lands like a hammer. It is clear these two aren't getting along...
...three syndromes. The most common of these involves nothing more than overworked muscles. Normally, as the body moves, its muscles contract and relax in quick succession. But if they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells in the stricken muscle die, and the body sends out a distress signal in the form of a sharp pain...