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
During part of the time, while writing in the midst of hunger and freezing cold, he had an epileptic attack every ten days.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
The Russian has told us in memorable phrases of the blinding, intense happiness, a cerebral spasm, which lasts the fraction of a second at the beginning of an epileptic attack.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
