convulsion
IPA: kʌnvˈʌɫʃʌn
noun
- (medicine) An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
- An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.
- Violent turmoil.
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Examples of "convulsion" in Sentences
- The animal went into convulsions.
- This cause the convulsion of kids in Japan.
- Convulsions are the result of cerebral vasospasm.
- The convulsion is a substitute for the criminal act.
- The resulting convulsion is modified by the muscle relaxant.
- This increases reflex excitability and result in convulsion.
- Therefore this is the alternative least likely to produce convulsion.
- The group was formed by Lars Lofven, formerly of Convulsion and Inanimate.
- The spread of the convulsion phenomenon, however, divided the Jansenist camp.
- China, the most populous nation of the globe, was in convulsion, its regime still undecided.
- The book has an epic scope — it is a picture of a planet in convulsion — without foregoing the detail of everyday life or a sense of the moment.
- In the end, you make the -- we're going through a kind of short-term convulsion, and normal will be what normal was, maybe a titch (ph) different?
- Such a convulsion is the struggle of gradual suffocation, as in drowning; and, in the original Opium Confessions, I mentioned a case of that nature communicated to me by a lady from her own childish experience.
- Most frequently pain of body is the cause of convulsion, which is often however exchanged for madness; and a painful delirious idea is most frequently the cause of madness originally, but sometimes of convulsion.
- _ -- Although there is no disease of the nervous system which can be properly termed convulsive, or justify the use of the word convulsion to indicate any particular disease, yet it is often such a prominent symptom that a few words may not be out of place.
- The highest eulogy that can be pronounced on the intellectual character of a ruler, in times of great civil convulsion, is that it is his policy to have no policy, content with keeping his ship trim as he permits her to sweep downwards with the precipitous torrent.