Convulsion

Noun

 * 1)  An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
 * 2) An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.
 * 3) Violent turmoil.
 * Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis.

Related terms

 * convulse
 * convulsive
 * convulsant

Adjectives
popular;  perilous;   suicidal   gleaming; rare; burnished; hammered  tarnished; public; hysterical; spasmodic passionate; sardonic; civic; fearful; ghastly; strong; horrid; freakish; dreadful; moral; amiable; seething; mighty; mad.

Verbs
attend with—; pass through—; produce—; quiet—; shake with—; stiffen in—; treat for—; writhe in—; —arises from; —recurs; —seizes.

Thesaurus
Homeric laughter, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abscess, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, ague, akinetic epilepsy, amok, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, apoplexy, arrest, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attack, autonomic epilepsy, backache, belly laugh, blaze, bleeding, blennorhea, blockage, bloodless revolution, boff, boffola, bouleversement, breakdown, breakup, burst, burst of laughter, cachexia, cachexy, cachinnation, cackle, cardiac epilepsy, cat fit, cataclysm, catastrophe, chill, chills, chortle, chuckle, clamor, clean slate, clean sweep, climax, clonic spasm, clonus, colic, computer revolution, conniption, conniption fit, constipation, cortical epilepsy, coughing, counterrevolution, cramp, crow, cursive epilepsy, cyanosis, cyclone, debacle, derangement, diarrhea, diastrophism, disarrangement, disaster, discomposure, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, diurnal epilepsy, dizziness, downfall, dropsy, duck fit, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eclampsia, edema, emaciation, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, eruption, explosion, fainting, fall, falling sickness, fatigue, ferment, fever, fibrillation, fit, fit of anger, fit of laughter, fit of temper, flare-up, flux, focal epilepsy, frenzy, furor, fury, gale, gales of laughter, giggle, grand mal, grip, growth, guffaw, gust, ha-ha, haute mal, hearty laugh, hee-haw, hee-hee, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hilarity, ho-ho, horselaugh, hurricane, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, hysterical epilepsy, icterus, ictus, indigestion, inflammation, insanity, insomnia, irruption, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, laugh, laughing, laughter, lockjaw, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, misarrangement, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, outburst of laughter, outcry, overthrow, overturn, pain, palace revolution, paralysis, paroxysm, peal of laughter, perturbation, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, prostration, pruritus, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, quake, quaking, radical change, rage, rash, reflex epilepsy, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, rheum, risibility, roar of laughter, rocking, rotatoria, sabotage, sclerosis, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, sexual climax, shaking, shock, shout, shout of laughter, shriek, shuffling, skin eruption, sneezing, snicker, snigger, snort, sore, spasm, stoppage, storm, striking alteration, stroke, subversion, sweeping change, tabes, tabula rasa, tachycardia, tantrum, tardy epilepsy, technological revolution, tee-hee, temblor, temper tantrum, tempest, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tidal wave, titter, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tornado, torsion spasm, total change, tottering, transilience, traumatic epilepsy, trembling, trismus, tsunami, tumor, tumult, ucinate epilepsy, upheaval, upset, upset stomach, upturn, vertigo, violent change, visitation, vomiting, wasting, whirlwind, yuck, yuk-yuk

Translations

 * Bulgarian: конвулсия, гърчене
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jìngluán)
 * Croatian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: rángatózás
 * Persian: تشنج
 * Portuguese: convulção
 * Spanish: convulsión
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: пристъп
 * Finnish:


 * Greek: ,


 * Finnish: mullistus
 * Greek: αναστάτωση, αναταραχή


 * Hungarian: háborgás,


 * : convulsion (1)
 * : ఫిట్లు (phiTlu), పూనకం (poonakaM)(histeric in nature)