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Uraemic :: Uraemic (a.) Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions..

Convulsion :: Convulsion (n.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body..

Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..

Paroxysm :: Paroxysm (n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.

Convulsionary :: Convulsionary (a.) Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.

Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..

Fit :: Fit (n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness..

Convulsionist :: Convulsionist (n.) One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the Convulsionists of St. Medard..

Quake :: Quake (v. i.) To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake..

Shock :: Shock (n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body..

Eclampsia :: Eclampsia (n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions..

Convulsional :: Convulsional (a.) Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary..

Jumper :: Jumper (n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..

Convulsive :: Convulsive (a.) Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary..

Antispasmodic :: Antispasmodic (n.) A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

Epileptogenous :: Epileptogenous (a.) Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions..

Convulsionary :: Convulsionary (n.) A convulsionist.

Snub :: Snub (v. i.) To sob with convulsions.

Epileptoid :: Epileptoid (a.) Resembling epilepsy; as, epileptoid convulsions..

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