catalepsy
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We think now he probably suffered from catalepsy, a nervous condition that causes muscular rigidity.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010
Whelan scrapped the result, not for lack of merit, but because he decided it could only evoke ten show-stopping minutes of caterwauling and catalepsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy."
From Time Magazine Archive
I still can't believe that any human being could induce such a state of catalepsy, or living death, or whatever you want to call it, in other human beings.
From Mask of Death by Ernst, Paul
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