saltatoric, a. Path.
(sæltəˈtɒrɪk)
[Formed as prec. after G. saltatorisch (Bamberger): see -ic.]
saltatoric spasm: a kind of nervous disease in which the patient when set on his feet begins to leap.
| 1877 Gowers in Lancet 14 July 45/2 The saltatoric spasm persisted for nine months, and then gradually ceased. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 902 They are wanting in the regularity and precision of those of saltatoric spasm. |