Michael Strahan

I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all the leg exercises. I know they help me, and I'm able to move around and don't have knee problems, and my hip doesn't hurt anymore, but when my trainer tells me I have to do them, I almost feel like my body goes into convulsions.

American Athlete

Barton Gellman

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

American Journalist

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

American President

Andrew Coyle Bradley

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

American Judge

Bernard Sumner

My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

English Musician

Emily Greene Balch

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

American Educator

William Godwin

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.

English Writer

N. T. Wright

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

British Clergyman

Alexander Pope

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

English Poet

Jules Verne

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

French Author

Used to describe symptoms of medical conditions, often serious, like epilepsy.

Medical Condition

Emphasizes violent, uncontrollable muscle movements often seen in seizures.

Physical Intensity

It can refer to spasms resulting from other conditions or injuries, not just epilepsy.

Not Always Epilepsy

It's used metaphorically to talk about large-scale disturbances in society or politics.

Metaphorical Use

Often references significant historical events that disrupt a community or nation.

Historical Events

Refers to an event or action that causes a sudden, unexpected change in a system or routine.

Disruptive Change

Indicates an event's profound impact on the status quo.

Impactful Event

 measured types of convulsions. And they thought, "Well, we've got electricity, we'll plug somebody into the wall. That always makes hair stand up and people shake a lot." So they tried it on a few pigs, and none of the pigs were killed. So they went to the police and they said,

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 and if that weren't enough the oxygen going down to the diver was risky too when cousteau was a young man people would use a hose to run oxygen from the surface down to divers the problem is when oxygen gets deep enough it becomes toxic and it then can cause convulsions and

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 they set off convulsions that make the ant fall from the tree. The fungus changes the ant's behavior, compelling it to wander mindlessly until it stumbles onto a plant leaf with the perfect fungal breeding conditions, which it latches onto. The ant then dies,

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 there's a three-part technique which started with an effort to wipe out past patterns of behavior and this was accomplished through the use of particularly intensive repeated high level electro shocks until no more convulsions could be elicited from a patient

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 As I started to think about swimming for the surface, I heard and I felt the third wave pass over the top of me. And I immediately go back into those cartwheels and spins, caught in the turbulence of it, and realize that, you know, these full body convulsions

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 Said to cause symptoms ranging from facial twitching to full body convulsions, the Babylonians believed those afflicted were possessed by evil spirits, and the only treatment was divine intervention. Today, we know the symptoms of miqtu by another name,

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 Help me! Somebody help me!" And the next thing is paralysis. I feel it in the back and then I feel it in the chest up here, and I can't breathe. And now I'm not swimming with a nice long stroke, I'm sort of crabbing it this way. Then come convulsions.

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 So, I had to add handcuffs, while holding my breath, to escape from. This was a critical mistake. Because of the movement, I was wasting oxygen. And by seven minutes I had gone into these awful convulsions.

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 kidnapped and I knew he was I had tortured him for a year and then one night I heard her kind of a convulsion of coughing and then salads and some time before dawn they came in and took him out

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 respiratory tract bringing a slow and painful death Saddam also used nerve agents such as sarin it causes a wide range of symptoms including convulsions vomiting and death during the campaign

Convulsion

A sudden, violent and irregular movement caused by your muscles.

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A sudden social or political upheaval.

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A sudden change or disruption to something.

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Physical Intensity

Not Always Epilepsy

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