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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Both tonic and clonic.
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Examples
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Gran or grand mal seizures -- also known as tonic-clonic seizures -- involve a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.
FOXNews.com 2011
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All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Central nervous system effects are also common and can vary from agitation to tonic-clonic seizures.
Theophylline 2010
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All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Jesse had generalized tonic-clonic seizures that lasted from one to two minutes.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Jesse had generalized tonic-clonic seizures that lasted from one to two minutes.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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Most often, though, they fall in a well-documented spectrum of mental and somatic anomalies, from the transient episodes of decreased awareness known as absence (formerly called "petit mal") to the tonic-clonic (or "grand mal") attack characterized by loss of consciousness, collapse and spasmodic stiffening and jerking.
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Webbing will be put on as I managed to flip/fall out of this chair during a grand mal/tonic-clonic.
See me in the powerchair! Also postcards, packages, isolation and no GP Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Gran or grand mal seizures -- also known as tonic-clonic seizures -- involve a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.
June 25, 2015