Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
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