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Definition of Eclampsia

1. Noun. A toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy.

Definition of Eclampsia

1. n. A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.

Definition of Eclampsia

1. Noun. (pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by convulsions and coma. See preeclampsia. ¹

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Definition of Eclampsia

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Medical Definition of Eclampsia

1. Convulsions and coma occurring in a pregnant or puerperal woman, associated with preeclampsia, i.e., with hypertension, oedema, and/or proteinuria. Origin: Gr. Eklampein = to shine forth This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Eclampsia

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"As a rule, however, symptoms of cerebral disturbance were most significant and most reliable as indicating the approach of eclampsia. ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"As to the presence of two types of eclampsia to which Dr. De Lee referred, I think in outlining the symptoms he indicated very properly that there is a ..."

3. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"Considering it as a simple uremia occurring in pregnancy, uremia and eclampsia have in common the constant occurrence of renal disturbance with albuminuria ..."

4. Obstetrics: a text-book for the use of students and practitioners by John Whitridge Williams (1904)
"Statistical tables go to show that eclampsia occurs about ... The following table would indicate that eclampsia occurs in about 0.75 per cent of the women ..."

5. A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1886)
"eclampsia. THE term eclampsia is used in a more restricted sense by some •writers than by ... eclampsia is therefore synonymous with clonic "convulsions. ..."

6. A System of midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1879)
"PUERPERAL eclampsia. Definition. — Connection between eclampsia and Acute Bright' g Disease. — Ecla sia from other Morbid ..."

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