Eksempler på paroxysm

• In suddenness, intensity, and periodicity, there is a close analogy between malarial fever and inebriate paroxysms, the same causes often originating both diseases.

• This causes movement of the cupula and a brief paroxysm of vertigo and nystagmus.

• This drives greens into paroxysms of pious rage.

• The duration and intensity of pain episodes or paroxysms were additional parameters studied.

• Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of everyday life.

• Her hyperactive life became indistinguishable from performance, and her performances were characterized as translating an array of feelings into a single paroxysm.

• This definition requires o2 weeks' cough plus one or more of : paroxysms, or post-tussive vomiting, or inspiratory whoop (without any other cause), or epidemiological link to a laboratory-confirmed pertussis case.

• Freud was correct, then, that grief and loss do empty us for a time, depleting us in waves and paroxysms.