Paroxysm
- a sudden outburst of a violent emotion or action (laughter, rage)
- a seizure, spasm, cramp, sudden attack of pain
- an increase of symptoms or periodic attacks of a disease (such as malaria, asthma, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, tachycardia, whooping cough, and epilepsy. Rage, in Psychiatry, is a mental state that is one extreme of the intensity spectrum of Anger. An epileptic seizure is caused by excessive and/or hypersynchronous electrical Neuronal activity and is usually self-limiting A spasm is a sudden involuntary contraction of a Muscle, a group of muscles or a hollow organ, or a similarly sudden Contraction of an Orifice Cramps, sometimes called Charley horses are unpleasant often painful sensations caused by contraction or over shortening of Muscles Cramps can be caused by cold Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm A symptom' (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident misfortune that which befalls" from συμπίπτω, "I befall" from Malaria is a vector -borne Infectious disease caused by Protozoan Parasites It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions including Asthma is a chronic Condition involving the Respiratory system in which the airways occasionally constrict become inflamed, and are Migraine is a neurological Syndrome characterized by altered bodily experiences painful headaches and nausea Trigeminal neuralgia (TN, or Tic Doloureux, (also known as prosopalgia is a neuropathic disorder of the Trigeminal nerve that causes episodes of intense Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious Disease caused by the Bacterium Bordetella pertussis; it derived its Epilepsy is a common chronic Neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. )
- In geology a volcanic eruption with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 5 (on a scale of 0-8) is called 'paroxysmal. The Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI was devised by Chris Newhall of the U '
For medical meanings see also paroxysmal attacks.
External links
- Bronchial Asthma as Paroxysmal Disease Common mechanisms of asthma with other neurogenic paroxysmal diseases.
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