grand mal
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While playing “Cyberpunk 2077” ahead of the game’s release, Ruppert, an associate editor at Game Informer, experienced a grand mal seizure, a potentially life-threatening event that causes violent muscle contractions and a loss of consciousness.
A journalist had a seizure while playing ‘Cyberpunk 2077.’ Then she helped change the game. | Elise Favis | December 31, 2020 | Washington PostCould the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas | James Joiner | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe evidenced particular tenderness in describing a woman cradling a fellow inmate who had just suffered a grand mal seizure.
Scarsdale Doctor Killer Jean Harris Found Redemption in Prison | Michael Daly | December 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEleanor suffered her first grand mal seizure during a camping trip in 2005 and was diagnosed with brain cancer that year.
The first time she cut back on her medications, she had a grand mal seizure in her bathroom and knocked out her front teeth.
The petit mal most commonly co-exists with the grand mal, but has no necessary connexion with it, as each may exist alone.
This is incomplete grand mal, the starting stages only of a fit, recovery occurring before convulsions.
Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia | Isaac G. BriggsStatus Epilepticus, in which a series of grand mal attacks follow one another with no conscious interval.
Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia | Isaac G. BriggsIn Serial Epilepsy, a number of attacks of grand mal follow one another, with but very brief intervals between.
Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia | Isaac G. BriggsEpilepsy shows every gradation, from symptoms which cannot be described in language, to severe grand mal.
Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia | Isaac G. Briggs
British Dictionary definitions for grand mal
/ (ɡrɒn mæl, French ɡrɑ̃ mal) /
a form of epilepsy characterized by loss of consciousness for up to five minutes and violent convulsions: Compare petit mal
Origin of grand mal
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