Word Finder - convulsions

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An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.

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An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.

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Violent turmoil.

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Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis.

The events of the three years from1820-1823were the beginning of a series of convulsions which lasted till 1874.

The researches of Renan have refuted the once popular idea that a great part of the original island has disappeared by natural convulsions, though he believes that the remains of a submerged wall at the south end indicate that about 15 additional acres were once reclaimed and have been again lost.

At length breathing ceases, with or without convulsions, and the heart slowly stops.

The 11 th century, with its political convulsions, resulting in the establishment of an alien rule and the partial suppression of the language of the conquered race, was unfavourable to literary efforts of any kind in the vernacular.

But financial difficulties, combined with civil and religious convulsions, long delayed the accomplishment of his desires.

Amidst the last convulsions of political Judaism a new spiritual conception of the kingdom of God, of salvation, and of the Saviour of God's anointing, had shaped itself through the preaching, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

They may represent the gigantic forces of nature which appear in earthquakes and other convulsions, or the multitudinous motion of the sea waves (Mayer, Die Giganten and Titanen, 1887).

The convulsions from which he suffered so much in later years must he partly attributed to this violent shock.

Small doses increase the sensibility of touch, sight and hearing; large doses cause twitching of the muscles and difficulty in swallowing; while in overdose violent convulsions are produced.

The patient is then seized with violent convulsions of a tetanic character; the arms are stretched out, respiration impeded, the muscles are rigid, the body is thrown into opisthotonos, i.e.

SaintJust proposed a dictatorship as the only remedy for the convulsions of society.

He was able, however, to receive the Eucharist, and soon afterwards died in convulsions on the 19th of August.

In large doses it is a poison causing giddiness, deafness, salivation, sweating and convulsions.

In 1741 Edwards published in its defence The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, dealing particularly with the phenomena most criticized, the swoonings, outcries and convulsions.

Leonardo, having remained unmolested at Milan for two months under the new regime, but knowing that Ludovico was preparing a great stroke for the re-establishment of his power, and that fresh convulsions must ensue, thought it best to provide for his own security.

These bodies stimulate the grey matter in the spinal cord and cause tetanic convulsions.

An overdose can cause coma, convulsions or death.

Half of the seizures end with hemi or generalized convulsions.

The movie's aliens were able to induce meteorological convulsions on Earth to warn everyone of their power.

Up to 1 in 50 babies can suffer convulsions.

We had no idea what had caused the convulsions, possible head trauma or an unlikely something he had eaten.

Beyond trying to keep the child's temperature down there is really no other effective way of preventing further convulsions.

The attempt to go back to more " normal " methods will produce further convulsions on a world scale.

If untreated this is followed by convulsions and death.

Black's states that in cases of uraemia ' death may be preceded by convulsions and unconsciousness.

The vast majority of febrile convulsions are not serious.

Of these women, approximately 150,000 have eclamptic convulsions.

Benign epilepsy syndromes include benign infantile encephalopathy and benign neonatal convulsions.

Some consider this syndrome, rather than benign familial neonatal convulsions, as the earliest expression of idiopathic generalized epilepsy.

In December 1995 whilst at work one day I had 2 epileptic convulsions in the space of 5 minutes.

Severe hypoglycaemia may lead to unconsciousness and/or convulsions and may result in temporary or permanent impairment of brain function or even death.

Frequent or prolonged convulsions should be treated with intravenous diazepam.

It seems clear that febrile convulsions make up an extremely heterogeneous group for which there is no single mode of inheritance.

Severe toxicity is frequently accompanied by convulsions, which may also aggravate the potential for heart toxicity by inducing hypoxia.

In larger doses it causes stupor, coma and convulsions.

The clinical signs of lactation tetany are muscular spasms and convulsions, and death due to respiratory failure.

Remittent fevers (as well as intermittents) vary considerably in intensity; some cases are intense from the outset, or pernicious, with aggrava tion of all the symptoms - leading to stupor, delirium, collapse, intense jaundice, blood in the stools, blood and albumen in the urine, and, it may be, suppression of urine followed by convulsions.

His banquets were orgies, his pastimes convulsions.

It is only in very large doses that the voluntary muscles are poisoned, there being induced in them a tremor which may simulate ordinary convulsions.

In a well-marked case there is usually an initial rigor - in children convulsions - followed by a rise of temperature, with vomiting, headache, giddiness, intolerance to light; pain in epigastrium, back and limbs; sleeplessness, apathy or delirium.

Amongst these, the most important is fever with increased protein metabolism, attended with disturbances of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Nervous symptoms, somnolence, coma, spasms, convulsions and paralysis are of common occurrence.

She ceased to communicate, was unable to stand, slipped into unconsciousness, and began to have convulsions.

Strychnine blocks glycine receptors in the brain, causing muscle convulsions and death.

Tonight, he had a half hour of convulsions, and foaming at mouth (after a couple seizures) and then died.

It does sound a lot like some type of poisoning, because of the convulsions.

In the event of an overdose, the individual might experience convulsions where he or she shakes rapidly and has a seizure, heart attack or stroke.

Tremors and/or convulsions are another common effect of this drug.

It can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and convulsions in infants and should not be taken by women who are nursing.

Severity of symptoms can range from headache and nausea to convulsions and death.

Symptoms of plant poisoning range from irritation of the skin or mucous membranes of the mouth and throat to nausea, vomiting, convulsions, irregular heartbeat, and even death.