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eclampsia, eclampsy Pathol.|ɛˈklæmpsɪə, -sɪ|
[a. and ad. mod.L. eclampsia, as if a. Gr. *ἐκλαµψία, regularly f. ἐκλάµπειν to shine forth. Cf. Fr. éclampsie.]
‘Epileptiform convulsions dependent on some actual disturbance of the nervous centres caused by anatomical lesion’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). So also eˈclamptic a., affected with, or characteristic of eclampsia; (the less correct form eclampsic has been also used).
1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 823 Epileptiform convulsions, or eclampsia..are to be discriminated by means of the..symptoms. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwif. 295 Eclamptic patients. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Idiocy, eclampsic..One of Ireland's divisions, including those cases that have followed infantile convulsions. |