1. (a.) Convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic asthma\.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occurring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.

3. (n.) A medicine for spasm.

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