Muscular rigidity

Usage examples of catatonia.

He kept thinking there must be something that he had not tried, that her catatonia was a condition he could change if he could just figure out what was needed.

The trick was in finding a chink in the armor of her catatonia, in worming his way past her natural defenses to where she was hiding.

Only when he broke down in frustration and cried that one time, when he wasn’t even trying to make her respond, had she come out of her catatonia to speak with him.

Her eyes shifted to where Rue’s hand rested on his shoulder, and the last physical vestiges of the girl of six that she had been for all those days and nights of her catatonia vanished.

Only when he broke down in frustration and cried that one Lime, when he wasn't even trying to make her respond, had she come out of her catatonia to speak with him.

Her eyes shifted to where Rue's hand rested on his shoulder, and the last physical vestiges of the girl of six that she had been for all those days and nights of her catatonia vanished.

They’ve been treating it as they would catatonia, or schizophrenia—giving them a serotonin dopamine complex, limbic stimulants .

Gorging on fudge cake and coffee to guard against a spontaneous lapse into meditative catatonia, Junior manfully admitted that he had been weak, that he had reacted to the unknown with fear and retreat instead of with bold confrontation.

The failure to find a heart mate, the humiliation with Renee Vivi, the two nasty cases of gonorrhea, the disastrous meditative catatonia, the inability to learn French and German, his loneliness, his emptiness, his thwarted attempts to find and kill the bastard boy born of Phimie's womb: All these things and more, much more, were the hateful consequences of the vicious, vindictive voodoo of that hypocritical Christian.

Maybe if he could provoke her enough, she’d break free of this catatonia and answer his questions.

Now that I had broken free of the catatonia, I could watch for a better time to escape.

A weird vacancy filled her eyes, reminiscent of the catatonia she’d recently mastered.

We have lots of words for human-mind bugsparanoias, catatonias, phobias, neuroses, irrationalities.

It is quite possible that chromopsychosis could reach the fatal level by inducing hypertrophy of the trinitarian follicles with consequent cerebric catatonia.

Voice trembling, she accepts the chairperson's proffered bandanna-hankie and blows her nose one nostril at a time and says she can almost see It all over again: Its expression: in the vanity's lights only Its eyes' whites showed, and while Its utter catatonia and paralysis prevented the contraction of Its luridly rouged face's circumoral muscles into any conventional human facial-type expression, nevertheless some hideously mobile and expressive layer in the moist regions below real people's expressive facial layer, some slow-twitch layer unique to It, had blindly contracted, somehow, to gather the blank soft cheese of Its face into the sort of pinched gasping look of neurologic concentration that marks a carnal bliss beyond smiles or sighs.