Meaning
1 sensesA medicine for suppressing spasms.
Examples
2 sentencesThe ordinary croup of infants is spasmodic croup, and is very rarely dangerous, although the symptoms seem very alarming.
“That,” said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; “that . . . very clear indeed.”
Origin
From New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπFrom New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm”).
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