CONVULSION
\kənvˈʌlʃən], \kənvˈʌlʃən], \k_ə_n_v_ˈʌ_l_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONVULSION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.
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Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.
By Oddity Software
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A general term referring to sudden and often violent motor activity of cerebral or brainstem origin. Convulsions may also occur in the absence of an electrical cerebral discharge (e.g., in response to hypotension).
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An agitation; tumult; a violent and unnatural shortening of the muscles; a spasm; a fit; a violent disturbance of the earth, such as an earthquake.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A violent and involuntary contortion of the muscles: commotion.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The word has several acceptations. It means may violent perversion of the animal movements. The word Convulsions generally, however, signifies alternate contractions, violent and involuntary, of muscles, which habitually contract only under the influence of the will. This alternate contraction, when slight, is called tremor; when strong and permanent, tetanus, trismus, &c. Spasms, Cramp, Risus Sardonicus, and St. Vituss Dance are convulsions.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A violent involuntary contraction, or series of contractions, of groups of voluntary muscles. See eclampsia.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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