When she came to her senses she looked about upon a scene of blood and horror, and burst into a paroxysm of weeping.
en.wikipedia.org Women were hysterical, scores fainted; men wept as, in paroxysms of frenzy, they hurled themselves against the police lines.
en.wikipedia.org He is given credit for the first description of acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, and use terms such as, exacerbation, relapse, resolution, crisis, paroxysm, peak, and convalescence.
en.wikipedia.org The paroxysms were accompanied by swaying motions of the ground which caused all the houses of the town to totter.
en.wikipedia.org Subsequent attention was focused on the predominant group with occipital spikes, which was established as early onset benign childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms.
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