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It may present as a convulsion, unusual body movement, change in awareness or simply a blank stare.
Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion.
Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning.
The terms seizure and convulsion include grand mal, petit mal, absence, myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and focal motor seizures and signs.
The convulsion had relinquished its grip, and Juan had slipped into a catatonic-like requiescence.
The Chinese translation of epilepsy is Dian, meaning falling sickness, and epileptic attack is Xian, meaning convulsion.
An island, in sooth, there exists, but one not formed by a convulsion of nature, but by the artificial handiwork of man.
The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood.
This stimulus produces an epileptic-type convulsion, lasting typically from 15 seconds to two minutes.
And in the face of social convulsion, it's not likely that politicians are going to risk their careers and social chaos for the sake of principle.
But this convulsion feels too powerful to permit the survival of the ancien regime.
Measures against circulatory shock, respiratory depression and convulsion may be needed.
Symptoms of poisoning are nausea, headache, general feeling of being unwell, followed by generalized convulsion.
There may be an initial violent convulsion or minor stimulation may trigger violent convulsions.
During a convulsion, the child's arms and legs stiffen because the muscles are contracting.
But this economic convulsion went far beyond pulp and paper and affected many manufacturing jobs.
Francis was having one convulsion after another and nothing seemed to stop them.
On the third day of admission the infant had a major convulsion.
This was a time of political and social convulsion throughout Europe.
Mauritian sega dancing starts somewhere around the pelvis and doesn't stop until the dancers are limbo-arched backwards in a wild, shake-that-thing convulsion.
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We were under the impression that such an attack is usually known as an epileptiform convulsion.
Here Paddy retired from the room, doubled in a strong but soundless convulsion.
I had a vague belief that he was suffering from a fit or some form of convulsion.
The use of the gum lancet relieved the convulsion, and there was no return of the chorea.
These attacks were accompanied by frequent epileptic fits and clonic convulsion of certain muscles.
His denseness irritated Blinky slightly, with the result that the right side of his face again underwent an alarming convulsion.
The cloven-hoofed horse gave one shrill neigh, and one convulsion, and fell back dead.
We are here in presence of geological changes affected neither by shock nor convulsion, nor yet by infinitesimally slow degrees.
At length, a convulsion passed over the frame of the kneeler, and heaving a deep sigh he arose.
The schooner shook with such a convulsion that I was persuaded she had been split.
It fell with one convulsion on the ground, and gave up the ghost.
By some unknown convulsion, this detritus had been heaped up.
This jees Uck did for him, while he was plunged into another convulsion.
There are recent marks of convulsion having happened in the island.
After a brief space, the convulsion grew almost imperceptible, and finally subsided into the depths of his nature.
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Miss Marrable sank back in the arm-chair, and gave way to the second convulsion.
What benefit could accrue to him from a great political convulsion?
So it is with the great convulsion of Nature which was known as byronism.
The word was catapulted from him as though by a muscular convulsion.
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