Lexic.us

Definition of Convulsion

1. Noun. A sudden uncontrollable attack. "Convulsions of laughter"

2. Noun. Violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles.

3. Noun. A violent disturbance. "The convulsions of the stock market"

4. Noun. A physical disturbance such as an earthquake or upheaval.

Definition of Convulsion

1. n. An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

Definition of Convulsion

1. Noun. (medicine) An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction. ¹

2. Noun. An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm. ¹

3. Noun. Violent turmoil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Convulsion

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Convulsion

1. A violent involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the voluntary muscles. Origin: L. Convulsio, from convellere = to pull together This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Convulsion

convolvulin convolvulus convolvuluses convos convoy convoyed convoying convoys convulsant convulsant threshold

convulsants convulse convulsed convulses convulsing convulsion (current term) convulsional convulsionaries convulsionary convulsionist

convulsionists convulsions convulsive convulsive reflex convulsive seizure convulsive state convulsive therapy convulsive tic convulsively convulsiveness

Literary usage of Convulsion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Epilepsy and Other Chronic Convulsive Diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms, and by William Richard Gowers (1901)
"After this convulsion had continued on the right side for ten ... Nineteen minutes after the onset the convulsion ceased in the right side of the face, ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"With regard to convulsiona produced partly directly bat mainly indirectly by a discharge-lesion, we have tu consider the degree of convulsion, the range of ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Effect of methionine sulphoximine (MSO) on the concentration of ATP in the brain immediately before and after convulsion. (Group A) The animal was ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1899)
"On January 5, 189(i, a convulsion occurred at (j o'clock A M. The blood was examined forty minutes after the attack, and subsequently at two hourly ..."

5. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1856)
"convulsion that closed the Triassic age.—343. First Jurassic stage determined by ... convulsion which closed the period. SECOND JURASSIC PERIOD. 348. ..."

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