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Hemispasm

Hemispasm (hemispasmus; Greek hemi-– a floor - unilateral, half + Greek spasmos – a spasm) – the hyperkinesia representing a pristupoobrazny tonic muscle tension of one half of a body or its part.

Types of a hemispasm:

  • Guboyazychny (labiolingualis) – expressed convulsive procrastination of a corner of a mouth at a simultaneous deviation of language in the same party; it can be noted at basal arachnoidites, hysteria;
  • Front (facialis) – irregularly arising and expressed convulsive reduction of the muscles innervated by a facial nerve (for example, at an arachnoiditis in a zone of a mostomozzhechkovy corner).
 
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