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convulsion

noun as in muscle spasm

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Novo is in convulsions amid a dramatic selloff that started in the middle of last year, the company has recently shed its CEO and all of the independent directors on its board.

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The back end of Mr. Bird’s book is a romp through the real-estate convulsions of Asia and the U.S.

A more severe and concerning case can cause neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness, or paralysis.

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She said one prison guard had said Navalny was experiencing convulsions and was breathing heavily and coughing.

There's this much reported case of a woman who suffered from convulsions after taking a medicine for diabetes which had a similar sounding name to an analgesic she had been prescribed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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