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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Convulsion :: Convulsion (n.) Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.

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

Mytilotoxine :: Mytilotoxine (n.) A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood..

Tetanic :: Tetanic (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions..

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

Anticonvulsive :: Anticonvulsive (a.) Good against convulsions.

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..

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