convulsion

The remaining two recordings were triggered by sound or motion, but only one suggested that a muscle convulsion, a sign of seizure, had occurred.

It opens in Paris amid that convulsion of violence called the Terror, with surging, shouting crowds and the metallic hiss of the falling guillotine blade.

To test his theory, Meduna chemically induced a convulsion in a catatonic patient.

The country is almost certainly not on the brink of some new transformative convulsion.

Even after a second convulsion of 1945, the "great" families survived.