Spasm

... and send me on my way. However, this is NOT normal. I know me well enough and have plenty stretched mid-sleep and not had these tremors and spasms. It has never been so bad that it actually causes shocking pain. I feel like my mind is telling my body things that aren't true. Impulses are ...

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... [277.1-33] __ Fecal impaction [277.1-34] __ Fever [277.1-35] __ Foot drop [277.1-36] __ Gag reflex, depressed [277.1-37] __ Gastrointestinal spasms [277.1-38] __ Hallucinations [277.1-39] __ Hyperpigmentation [277.1-40] __ Hypertension (high blood pressure) [277.1-41] __ Hypoesthesia (sp) ...

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... However, Bakker noted last year in our tyrannosaur symposium that the fingertips of this species could only produce a mere 0.2 horsepower in a spasm. Now of course if we were to leave it there, it would seem that these arms were vestigial. Another contemporary, the Edmontosaurus can apparently ...

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... watch. They have very long tails which stay anchored and the cilia in the mouth appear to be drawing material towards the mouth. They occasionally spasm into a ball (kind of like a golf ball on a string). It's amazing the speed at which it happens. It looks instantaneous. One second they're normal ...

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... This one, however, doesn't appear to have a hard shell, so I'm not sure it would survive dehydration. We'll see. I also haven't found one that can spasm into a golf-ball shape like the ones I saw, but there appear to be a number of types. I guess once I have them, my first experiment will be to ...

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