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• High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.From the entry act
• Once ingested, the poison attacks the membranes of the neurone cells, causing death by convulsion in seconds.2014, Charlie Charters, Bolt Action, →ISBN. From the entry tets
• Very large doses of acetophenetidin may cause dizziness, delirium, or convulsions.2013 October 22, Walter S. Root, Frederick G. Hofmann, The Nervous System: Central Nervous System Drugs, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 364. From the entry acetophenetidin
• (Unciferous branches used for infantile convulsions, high fever, headache, hypertension, blurred vision, dizziness.2012, Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and…. From the entry unciferous
• The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical…. From the entry euthanasiate
• Trapped material eventually expands inside the soil body causing distortion, convulsion, and churning of the mass (turbation).1980, Hans Jenny, “Swelling, Shrinking, and their Turbations”, in The Soil Resource: Origin and Behavior, page 157. From the entry turbation
• Hospital attendants stand by to drag the children off, drooling, screaming, having clonic convulsions.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. From the entry clonic
• “The convulsions were of a peculiar violence, Dr.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 30. From the entry tetanic
• The organizers said they had found themselves "more involved in the web of social convulsions and violence that is tormenting our country.1990 February 4, Jennie McKnight, “Peruvian Politics Threaten Encuentro”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 2. From the entry sharpen
• Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men and women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions.1951 November 5, “Manners & Morals: Americana”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2010. From the entry froth at the mouth
• The symptoms of intoxication may differ in both cases considerably, e.g. they may be attended by deep unconsciousness and abiosis, and also by violent convulsions.1900, Merck's Annual Report of Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Therapeutics. From the entry abiosis
• The most striking pathological change induced by DVH is hepatic injury, such as hepatorrhagia and hepatic congestion, and the main clinical symptoms are cramps, convulsions, opisthotonus and sudden death.2016 January 6, “Assessment of a Flavone-Polysaccharide Based Prescription for Treating Duck Virus Hepatitis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry hepatorrhagia
• Convulsions made the man dance flappingly all the time, made him change his expressions, too, as though he were trying to imitate various famous movie stars.1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 80. From the entry flappingly
• The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.1944, Emily Carr, “Poison”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry gritty
• In addition, a number of new possibilities would be opened up to diagraphy – e.g., radiography of movements, kinematographic radiography, and radiography of those in a state of convulsion.1910, Frederick Dessauer, “A New Method of Instantatneous Radiography”, in Archives of the Roentgen Ray, volume 14, page 258. From the entry radiography
• Sinarchism in Mexico actually came into being when the successive revolutionary convulsions had at last produced revolutionary forces united and strong enough to carry out a practical and constructive policy.1944, Trade Union World - Issues 1-11, page 19. From the entry sinarchism

Meaning of convulsion

1. noun An intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.
2. noun An uncontrolled fit, as of laughter; a paroxysm.
3. noun Violent turmoil.

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How do you use convulsion in a sentence?

Convulsion is used as a noun. For example: “Earthquakes and convulsions of nature shake Earth on a regular basis.”

What is a short sentence with convulsion?

““The convulsions were of a peculiar violence, Dr.”

What does convulsion mean?

Convulsion means an intense, paroxysmal, involuntary muscular contraction.