catalepsynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkæt.ə.lep.si/us/ˈkæt̬.ə.lep.si/a medical condition in which a person's body becomes stiff and stops moving, as if dead
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Disorders of muscles & the nervous system
- acoustic neuroma
- agnosia
- akinetic-rigid HD
- ALS
- Alzheimer's
- amyloid plaque
- atrophy
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- Morton's metatarsalgia
- motor neuron disease
- Moyamoya disease
- multiple system atrophy
- muscular dystrophy
- myasthenia gravis
- persistent vegetative state
- rabid
- rabies
- spasm
- vapour
- writer's cramp
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cataleptic
adjective uk/ˌkæt.əˈlep.tɪk/us/ˌkæt̬.əˈlep.tɪk/
Examples from literature
- Catalepsy is produced by a sudden sharp noise, or by the sight of a brightly gleaming object.
- For the moment, I thought he had been seized with a fit of catalepsy.
- He hurried back into the room and found his patient in a state of catalepsy.
- I was in a kind of conscious catalepsy.
- Nearly all the means for producing hypnotism will, if carried to just the right degree, produce catalepsy.