clonic convulsion

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A convulsion in which the muscles alternately contract and relax.

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It underscores how complicated this case—this social convulsion—ultimately is.
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Reconciliations are handled glancingly, if at all; the family simply continues, settling into new patterns after each convulsion.
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She had done with little things, and Isabel, with young curiosity, wondered in what convulsion the last of them had gone down.
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Uttering these words, the good lady pointed distractedly to the cupboard, and underwent a convulsion from internal spasms.
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It has been claimed that a shot would break the tube and end the little convulsion.
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When the launch was under way Isabel told Gwynne of the blue flames that had danced over the marsh during the convulsion.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
What he dreaded was the spasm of dying—the convulsion that was to snap the thousand silver strings in the harp of life.
Julian Home|Dean Frederic W. Farrar