WordNet
n. a sudden acute episode of intense anxiety and feelings of panic
Usage examples of "anxiety attack".
When he felt the nervousness building toward an anxiety attack, he slipped out to the men's room.
No wonder Buffy had been so freaked about the anxiety attack that wasn't an anxiety attack.
Initially he worried that he would have an anxiety attack and begin to relive the plunge of Flight 353 as he had so often imagined it, but after just a few minutes, he knew that he would be all right.
The stink of evisceration hit Joe hard enough to knock him to the edge of an anxiety attack: the familiar sense of falling, falling as from a great height.
Leo wondered wistfully if it was possible to drop dead painlessly from an anxiety attack.
Al's senses told him that her anxiety attack had yet to run its course.