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SPASMODIC |
Convulsive |
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SHUDDER |
Convulsive shiver |
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SOB |
Weep with convulsive gasps |
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CONVULSIVELY |
In a convulsive manner. |
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CONVULSIONARY |
Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. |
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CHAGRIN |
Convulsive arching led to humiliation |
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CLONIC |
Having an irregular, convulsive motion. |
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SUBSULTUS |
A starting, twitching, or convulsive motion. |
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START |
A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. |
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CHOREIC |
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. |
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KINK |
A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter. |
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THWARTER |
A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or
convulsive motions. |
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HYSTERICAL |
Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled,
with hysterics; convulsive, fitful. |
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CRISPATION |
A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of
certain muscles, external or internal. |
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VELLICATION |
A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular
fiber, especially of the face. |
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CHOREA |
St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive
twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. |
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RIGOR |
A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a
convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever. |
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SOBBING |
A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis
being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs. |
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TWITCH |
A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a
simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the
side. |
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STRINGHALT |
An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a
horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that
raise the hock. |
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SNEEZE |
To emit air, chiefly through the nose, audibly and
violently, by a kind of involuntary convulsive force, occasioned by
irritation of the inner membrane of the nose. |
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TIC |
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles;
especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face;
twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. |
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EPILEPSY |
... attended by sudden loss of
consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. ... |
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CHILL |
A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body,
pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the
body or by nerv... |
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RAPHANY |
A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not
uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be
caused by eati... |