Word: spasms
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...dangerous are eleven other bedrest disorders mentioned at the meeting, e.g., kidney stones, habitual constipation, prostate trouble, bed sores, muscle spasm. The only patients for whom the assembled doctors thought that absolute bed rest might be allowable were: 1) the victims of a few such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, and 2) children, to whom it does little harm...
...sleek, young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans back against the dock and only the wariness in his eyes remains...
That episode was only one spasm in the tunnel's long history. It was originally suggested by Napoleon, in 1802, to Charles James Fox. For nearly three-quarters of a century it remained merely an idea. In 1867 a French engineer, Thomé de Gamond, exhibited the first practical drawings. In 1881 what became the still existent Channel Tunnel Company Ltd. was launched. Queen Victoria, who got seasick on the Channel crossing, gave it her blessing. Bores were started from Shakespeare Cliff on the English side of the stormy passage, and Sangatte, near Calais, on the French...
...ordinariness of war. The soldiers who crowd a boat to cross the wintry Volga, when the action turns against the Germans, do not look like a turn in the tide of world history: they look like a pack of freezing immigrants. When whole fields of guns go off, the spasm of trees, the twitching of grasses, the shuddering of the soil indicate war's vast violation of nature...
...Plato Schwartz and Harry Bou-man at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) used an oscillograph (electrical impulse recorder) to test the muscles of infantile-paralysis patients. They found that while it is true that the contracted muscles are in spasm, the stretched muscles and other muscles all over the body are also in spasm, but to a lesser degree. In the stretched muscles they found both paralysis and spasm. They conclude: 1) the muscle weakness results from impairment or destruction of certain nerve cells in the spinal cord; 2) spasm, which is only temporary, results from lack of the nerve...