spastic paralysis

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   a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth

   Synonymscerebral palsy

   Broaderbrain disorder

Questions about spastic paralysis

What does spastic paralysis mean?

spastic paralysis means "a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth".

What is another word for spastic paralysis?

Close synonyms include cerebral palsy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spastic paralysis a common word?

spastic paralysis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.