| Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion. |
| The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood. |
| It may present as a convulsion, unusual body movement, change in awareness or simply a blank stare. |
| The Chinese translation of epilepsy is Dian, meaning falling sickness, and epileptic attack is Xian, meaning convulsion. |
| The convulsion had relinquished its grip, and Juan had slipped into a catatonic-like requiescence. |
| Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning. |
