epileptic attack
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According to three female authors axe murderer Lizzie Borden butchered her family because "her period coincided with an epileptic attack"
From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2020
During a grand mal epileptic attack the cortex is engulfed in hyper-synchronized spiking activity; that is to say, massive amounts of cations flow into cells and the patient quickly loses consciousness.
From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2015
I considered an epileptic attack, to gain time, and sympathy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2012
At this time I felt as though in a tremor from head to foot, and the thought that I was about to have an epileptic attack constantly recurred.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham
The mother herself, in whom we gradually came to have full confidence, informed us that the dead child had an epileptic attack and was unconscious for several hours before she died.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
