ECLAMPSIA
\ɪklˈampsi͡ə], \ɪklˈampsiə], \ɪ_k_l_ˈa_m_p_s_iə]\
Definitions of ECLAMPSIA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
By Princeton University
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a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
By Oddity Software
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A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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ek-lamp'si-a, n. a term often erroneously applied as synonymous with epilepsy, while it is really the equivalent of convulsions, but usually restricted to such as are due to such local or general causes as teething, child-bearing, &c.--also ECLAMP'SY.--adj. ECLAMP'TIC. [Formed from Gr. eklampein, to shine forth.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Robley Dunglison
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[Greek] An attack of convulsions; more particularly, recurrent convulsions not directly dependent upon cerebral disease. Chief varieties: Infantile, due to reflex irritation (rickets, teething, worms), to fever, to exhaustion (as from diarrhoea), and to temporary cerebral congestion (as that produced by whooping-cough); Puerperal, occurring at or after the end of pregnancy, and probably due to uraemia; Uraemic, due to uraemia from suppression of urine. The convulsions of e. are like those of epilepsy, but in infantile e. may be limited to slight rigidity or may be entirely clonic. Treatment: causal (treatment of rickets, etc., in children, induction of labor in puerperal e., diuretics and diaphoretics in uraemic e.); symptomatic (hot baths, inhalation of chloroform, venesection during attack; large doses of potassium bromide in intervals).
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An acute toxemia occurring in the pregnant woman, usually characterized by clonic and tonic convulsions, during which there is loss of consciousness followed by more or less prolonged coma. The term was formerly used to signify convulsions occurring in children and in adults irrespective of cerebral disease. Degenerative changes are also found in the liver, kidneys, heart and brain.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe