furor epilepticus

[ fyur′ôr′ ĕp′ə-lĕp′tĭ-kəs, fyur′ər ]

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The sudden unprovoked attacks of intense anger and violence to which individuals with psychomotor epilepsy are occasionally subject.

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Imagine the rightful morning-after furor if a racial slight had been broadcast in primetime.
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It takes a transgression with real bite to inspire a furor of this intensity—Brangelina burn Jennifer!
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But as the furor subsides and the thunder dies, most or all of those girls probably will remain captives.
The Boko Haram Bidding War|Christopher Dickey|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But in the furor over the latest revelations, an even larger and more serious problem may be getting lost.
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Who would have expected a political furor to erupt around a single Nevada rancher?
Cliven Bundy Is Angry—Just Like the Rest of Us|James Poulos|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The furor it created was cut short by a fire, which destroyed the organ and damaged the tower of the church.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
There was a perfect furor of intellectual excitement going through the house all the time.
The American Country Girl|Martha Foote Crow
Hence my love and even furor now for mathematics, from which in my youth I fled.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols)|Thomas De Quincey
The term status epilepticus is applied to this condition, which is sometimes followed with fatal results.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6|Various
The revolutionary furor spread to the country towns, and for a whole week the Union flag practically disappeared from Maryland.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln|John G. Nicolay