Spasmodic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A medicine for spasm.

II. Spasmodic ·adj Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.

III. Spasmodic ·adj Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.