Convulsion Definition

Convulsion Sentence Examples

• Any noise, a draught of air or a touch may cause a convulsion.

• Then low-level electric current is passed through the brain to cause a brief convulsion.

• The great convulsion of the Revolution was drawing to a close, and everything was in an unsettled condition.

• Ordinary doses have no effect upon the temperature but in overdose the temperature rises during a convulsion.

• If the king or queen could either have had the political genius of Frederick the Great, or could have had the good fortune to find a minister with that genius, and the good sense and good faith to trust and stand by him against mobs of aristocrats and mobs of democrats; if the army had been sound and the states-general had been convoked at Bourges or Tours instead of at Paris, then the type of French monarchy and French society might have been modernized without convulsion.