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  2. Spasmodic poets - Wikipedia

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    These poets are not generally included in the Spasmodic school by modern literary critics. Spasmodic poetry was extremely popular from the late 1840s through the 1850s when it abruptly fell out of fashion. William Edmondstoune Aytoun's parodic Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz: a Spasmodic Tragedy (1854) is credited with getting the verse ...

  3. Free throw - Wikipedia

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    Immanuel Quickley of the New York Knicks shoots a free throw during a game versus the Detroit Pistons.. There are many situations when free throws can be awarded. The first and most common is when a player is fouled while in the act of shooting. If the player misses the shot during the foul, the player receives either two or three free throws depending

  4. Spasmodic dysphonia - Wikipedia

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    Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm. [1] [2] This results in breaks or interruptions in the voice, often every few sentences, which can make a person difficult to understand. [1]

  5. Muscle tension dysphonia - Wikipedia

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    MTD can be distinguished for another similar dysphonia, adductor spasmodic dysphonia, by differences in voice characteristics. [12] In MTD, all vocal tasks (vowels, singing, etc) are difficult for the patient while in adductor spasmodic dysphonia, some vocal tasks are difficult while others are unaffected. [ 12 ]

  6. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Schematic overview of the classes of stresses in plants Neurohormonal response to stress. Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition. [1] When stressed by stimuli that alter an organism's environment, multiple systems respond across the body. [2]

  7. Laryngospasm - Wikipedia

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    Laryngospasm is characterized by involuntary spasms of the laryngeal muscles. It is associated with difficulty or inability to breathe or speak, retractions, a feeling of suffocation, which may be followed by hypoxia-induced loss of consciousness. [2] It may be followed by paroxysmal coughing and in partial laryngospasms, a stridor may be heard ...

  8. Blepharospasm - Wikipedia

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    Blepharospasm is aggravated by fatigue, stress, and environmental factors such as wind or air pollution. [21] Although blepharospasm is defined as a bilaterally symmetric disorder that affects both eyes, some research has reported unilateral onset. [11] [22]

  9. Acute stress reaction - Wikipedia

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    The DSM-5 specifies that there is a higher prevalence of acute stress disorder among females compared to males due to neurobiological gender differences in stress response, as well as an alleged higher risk of experiencing traumatic events (a now defunct assumption originating from the continued prevalence of the Duluth Model in the legal ...