catalepsy

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We think now he probably suffered from catalepsy, a nervous condition that causes muscular rigidity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whelan scrapped the result, not for lack of merit, but because he decided it could only evoke ten show-stopping minutes of caterwauling and catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I became impressed with the idea that some form of catalepsy had seized and bound them in strong trance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various