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Violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles
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convulsion
Word definitions for convulsion in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction. 2 An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm. 3 Violent turmoil.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB go ▪ He died at a friend's flat in Rock Ferry after going into convulsions and frothing at the mouth. ▪ The shock had been too great, though, and its heart went into convulsions . ▪ At five minutes to four, Grégoire ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A convulsion is a medical condition where body muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly, resulting in an uncontrolled shaking of the body. Because a convulsion is often a symptom of an epileptic seizure , the term convulsion is sometimes used as ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convulsion \Con*vul"sion\, n. [L. convulsio: cf. F. convulsion.] (Med.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" [syn: paroxysm , fit ] violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" [syn: turmoil ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin convulsionem (nominative convulsio ), noun of action from past participle stem of convellere "to tear loose," from com- "together" (see com- ) + vellere "to pluck, pull violently" (see svelte ).
Usage examples of convulsion.
Of the overwhelming convulsion soon to come in France, of the violent end in the offing for the whole European world Adams had come to know, he appears to have had few if any premonitions, no more than anyone else.
Four or five minutes later Auguste was seized with terrible convulsions, followed by unconsciousness.
Later investigations have shown that, in cases of antimonial poisoning, vomiting does not necessarily get rid of all the poison, and the convulsions in which Auguste Ballet died are symptomatic of poisoning either by morphia or antimony.
If some of the botulinus virus had escaped into the atmosphere, how long before the first convulsions?
The historians mention it as one of the earthquakes which caused the greatest convulsions in northern Luzon, especially in Ilocos Norte and Cagayan, but above all in the region of the Central Central Cordillera, Lepanto, and Bontoc.
Oblivious, the cubs continued to feed until convulsions overcame them as the searfruit began its work.
We seemed to be the center of a whirling confusion, a crashing, screamimg dizziness, almost as though this great granite millstone of ours, in a final convulsion of cruelty, had come alive to whirl us down the barren slopes of Dartmoor to destruction.
The chaplain, roused by my screaming, comes down and finds me in convulsions.
Cousins mentions an individual of hemorrhagic diathesis who succumbed to extensive extravasation of blood at the base of the brain, following a slight fall during an epileptic convulsion.
The natural convulsion which did this, the traces of which are ineffaceably written here, must have carried away the broken fragments of the granite I know not where.
As they entered she was seized with convulsions, and gave birth to this Iwa, thus brought into the world together with the exposure of the crime.
One night when I was supping with her she was seized with convulsions which lasted all the night.
But on beholding the convulsed masses heaped up on the left, no geologist would have hesitated to give them a volcanic origin, for they were unquestionably the work of subterranean convulsions.
Iwakura Mission was the presence on it of so many ranking officials, who obviously felt that visiting the West at this time warranted their leaving Japan only three years after the convulsion that gave birth to the Meiji government.
Among the many symptoms associated with overexposure are blindness, insomnia, kidney failure, hearing loss, cancer, palsies, and convulsions.