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Convulsion

Convulsion | Convulsions

Convulsion meaning

An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction. | An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm. | Violent turmoil.

Example sentences (10)

He noted that children can also have convulsion when there is low levels of glucose in the bloodstream.

Note how William Styron describes his own depression in his memoir, “I experienced a curious inner convulsion that I can only describe as despair beyond despair.

Witnessing chaotic towers of tumbling ash emerge from an explosive convulsion at the apex of a mountain is already jaw-dropping enough.

She said: “We used to lose many children to measles, diarrhea and convulsion and we are not happy about it.

After a great political convulsion such as the Norman conquest, and the following wholesale confiscation of landed estates, William needed to reassert that the rights of the Crown, which he claimed to have inherited, had not suffered in the process.

And then, during the daytime of the 23rd, Montallegri indicated what there had been what Weinstock describes as "a terrifying convulsion" and that death was close.

Commandant Höss reported that the gassed victims "showed no signs of convulsion"; the Auschwitz camp physicians attributed that to the "paralyzing effect on the lungs" of the Zyklon-B gas, which killed before the victim began suffering convulsions.

Generalized seizures main The most common type of seizure is called a generalized seizure, also known as a generalized convulsion.

Symptoms Nude woman sitting with artificially induced convulsions, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge When a person is having a convulsion, they may experience several different symptoms.

The word "fit" is sometimes used to mean a convulsion or epileptic seizure.