Spastic

Spastic can refer to:

  • Spasticity, a feature of altered muscle performance
  • historically, to refer to people with the movement disorder spastic cerebral palsy, and by extension, people with cerebral palsy in general; this term is now deprecated, see below
  • more recently, spastic (word), a pejorative used against disabled people

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