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a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses

an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages

Synonyms:

• African lethargy,
• Asiatic cholera,
• Chagres fever,
• German measles,
• Haverhill fever,
• Jacksonian epilepsy,
• Rolandic epilepsy,
• abdominal epilepsy,
• access,
• acquired epilepsy,
• activated epilepsy,
• acute articular rheumatism,
• affect epilepsy,
• ague,
• akinetic epilepsy,
• alkali disease,
• amebiasis,
• amebic dysentery,
• anthrax,
• apoplexy,
• arrest,
• attack,
• autonomic epilepsy,
• bacillary dysentery,
• bastard measles,
• black death,
• black fever,
• blackwater fever,
• blockage,
• breakbone fever,
• brucellosis,
• bubonic plague,
• cachectic fever,
• cardiac epilepsy,
• cerebral rheumatism,
• chicken pox,
• cholera,
• clonic spasm,
• clonus,
• convulsion,
• cortical epilepsy,
• cowpox,
• cramp,
• cursive epilepsy,
• dandy fever,
• deer fly fever,
• dengue,
• dengue fever,
• diphtheria,
• diurnal epilepsy,
• dumdum fever,
• dysentery,
• eclampsia,
• elephantiasis,
• encephalitis lethargica,
• enteric fever,
• epilepsia,
• epilepsia gravior,
• epilepsia major,
• epilepsia minor,
• epilepsia mitior,
• epilepsia nutans,
• epilepsia tarda,
• epilepsy,
• erysipelas,
• falling sickness,
• famine fever,
• fit,
• five-day fever,
• flu,
• focal epilepsy,
• frambesia,
• frenzy,
• glandular fever,
• grand mal,
• grippe,
• hansenosis,
• haute mal,
• hepatitis,
• herpes,
• herpes simplex,
• herpes zoster,
• histoplasmosis,
• hookworm,
• hydrophobia,
• hysterical epilepsy,
• ictus,
• infantile paralysis,
• infectious mononucleosis,
• inflammatory rheumatism,
• influenza,
• jail fever,
• jungle rot,
• kala azar,
• kissing disease,
• larval epilepsy,
• laryngeal epilepsy,
• laryngospasm,
• latent epilepsy,
• lepra,
• leprosy,
• leptospirosis,
• loa loa,
• loaiasis,
• lockjaw,
• madness,
• malaria,
• malarial fever,
• marsh fever,
• matutinal epilepsy,
• measles,
• meningitis,
• menstrual epilepsy,
• milzbrand,
• mumps,
• musicogenic epilepsy,
• myoclonous epilepsy,
• nocturnal epilepsy,
• occlusion,
• ornithosis,
• osteomyelitis,
• paratyphoid fever,
• parotitis,
• paroxysm,
• parrot fever,
• pertussis,
• petit mal,
• physiologic epilepsy,
• pneumonia,
• polio,
• poliomyelitis,
• polyarthritis rheumatism,
• ponos,
• psittacosis,
• psychic epilepsy,
• psychomotor epilepsy,
• rabbit fever,
• rabies,
• rat-bite fever,
• reflex epilepsy,
• relapsing fever,
• rheumatic fever,
• rickettsialpox,
• ringworm,
• rotatoria,
• rubella,
• rubeola,
• scarlatina,
• scarlet fever,
• schistosomiasis,
• seizure,
• sensory epilepsy,
• septic sore throat,
• serial epilepsy,
• shingles,
• sleeping sickness,
• sleepy sickness,
• smallpox,
• snail fever,
• spasm,
• splenic fever,
• spotted fever,
• stoppage,
• strep throat,
• stroke,
• swamp fever,
• tardy epilepsy,
• tetany,
• throes,
• thromboembolism,
• thrombosis,
• thrush,
• tinea,
• tonic epilepsy,
• tonic spasm,
• torsion spasm,
• traumatic epilepsy,
• trench fever,
• trench mouth,
• trismus,
• tuberculosis,
• tularemia,
• typhoid,
• typhoid fever,
• typhus,
• typhus fever,
• ucinate epilepsy,
• undulant fever,
• vaccinia,
• varicella,
• variola,
• venereal disease,
• viral dysentery,
• visitation,
• whooping cough,
• yaws,
• yellow fever,
• yellow jack,
• zona,
• zoster