epileptic attack
Example Sentences
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According to three female authors axe murderer Lizzie Borden butchered her family because "her period coincided with an epileptic attack"
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2020
During a grand mal epileptic attack the cortex is engulfed in hyper-synchronized spiking activity; that is to say, massive amounts of cations flow into cells and the patient quickly loses consciousness.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2015
I considered an epileptic attack, to gain time, and sympathy.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2012
At this time I felt as though in a tremor from head to foot, and the thought that I was about to have an epileptic attack constantly recurred.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers
It is a sort of epileptic attack, a spasm.
From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
