Convulsion
noun
A sudden, violent and irregular movement caused by your muscles.
After being struck on the head, he fell into a series of violent convulsions.
Often appears as...
- seizure convulsion
- muscle convulsion
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Medical
noun
A sudden social or political upheaval.
The country has been in the grip of convulsions since the military coup.
Often appears as...
- political convulsion
- social convulsion
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Formal
noun
A sudden change or disruption to something.
His arrival caused a convulsion in the quiet village lifestyle.
Often appears as...
- cause a convulsion
- result in convulsion
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Formal
noun
A sudden, violent and irregular movement caused by your muscles.
After being struck on the head, he fell into a series of violent convulsions.
Often appears as...
- seizure convulsion
- muscle convulsion
Usage tips
Medical
noun
A sudden social or political upheaval.
The country has been in the grip of convulsions since the military coup.
Often appears as...
- political convulsion
- social convulsion
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A sudden change or disruption to something.
His arrival caused a convulsion in the quiet village lifestyle.
Often appears as...
- cause a convulsion
- result in convulsion
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms of medical conditions, often serious, like epilepsy.
The patient experienced convulsions requiring immediate medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Intensity
Emphasizes violent, uncontrollable muscle movements often seen in seizures.
During the convulsion, he lost control of his limbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Epilepsy
It can refer to spasms resulting from other conditions or injuries, not just epilepsy.
She had a convulsion due to a high fever.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms of medical conditions, often serious, like epilepsy.
The patient experienced convulsions requiring immediate medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Intensity
Emphasizes violent, uncontrollable muscle movements often seen in seizures.
During the convulsion, he lost control of his limbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Epilepsy
It can refer to spasms resulting from other conditions or injuries, not just epilepsy.
She had a convulsion due to a high fever.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Condition
Used to describe symptoms of medical conditions, often serious, like epilepsy.
The patient experienced convulsions requiring immediate medical attention.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Intensity
Emphasizes violent, uncontrollable muscle movements often seen in seizures.
During the convulsion, he lost control of his limbs.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Epilepsy
It can refer to spasms resulting from other conditions or injuries, not just epilepsy.
She had a convulsion due to a high fever.
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
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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The Gateway to Secret...
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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How parasites change...
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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CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
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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Greg Long: Big Wave...
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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What causes seizures,...
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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Diana Nyad: Extreme...
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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How I held my breath for...
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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Hostage Situation PIPE...
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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Saddam's Terror PIPE...
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
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Sherwin Nuland: How...
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,
Video examples
The Gateway to Secret...
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
Video examples
How parasites change...
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,
Video examples
CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
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
Video examples
Greg Long: Big Wave...
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
Video examples
What causes seizures,...
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,
Video examples
Diana Nyad: Extreme...
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.
Video examples
How I held my breath for...
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.
Video examples
Hostage Situation PIPE...
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
Video examples
Saddam's Terror PIPE...
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
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Michael Strahan
American Athlete
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.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
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.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
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.
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Andrew Coyle Bradley
American Judge
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.
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Bernard Sumner
English Musician
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.
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Emily Greene Balch
American Educator
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.
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William Godwin
English Writer
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.
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N. T. Wright
British Clergyman
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Jules Verne
French Author
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
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Michael Strahan
American Athlete
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.
Quote examples
Barton Gellman
American Journalist
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.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
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.
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Andrew Coyle Bradley
American Judge
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.
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Bernard Sumner
English Musician
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.
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Emily Greene Balch
American Educator
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.
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William Godwin
English Writer
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.
Quote examples
N. T. Wright
British Clergyman
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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Alexander Pope
English Poet
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Jules Verne
French Author
In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.
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