convulsions

英 [kənˈvʌlʃənz]

美 [kənˈvʌlʃənz]

n.  痉挛; 抽搐; 动乱; 骚动
convulsion的复数

柯林斯词典

• 抽搐;痉挛
  If someone hasconvulsions, they suffer uncontrollable movements of their muscles.
• N-COUNT (国家、体系、组织发生的)动乱，骚乱
  If there areconvulsionsin a country, system, or organization, there are major unexpected changes in it.
  1. ...the political convulsions that led to de Gaulle's return to power in May 1958.
     促使戴高乐在1958年5月重新上台的政治动乱
  2. ...the great convulsion of the eighteenth century.
     18世纪的巨大动乱

双语例句

• The resulting spasms, seizures, convulsions and comas were supposed to jar her from her puerperal psychosis, the term then used in England for postpartum depression.
  人们认为，由此产生的痉挛、抽搐、惊厥和昏迷可以让她从产后精神病中恢复过来。当年在英格兰，产后精神病指的就是产后抑郁症。
• High levels of nicotine, for instance, have been found to trigger convulsions in both animals and humans.
  例如已经发现尼古丁水平高可诱发动物和人类抽搐。
• Restlessness, anxiety, confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
  惊厥前也可出现躁动，烦躁，错觉，抽搐等症状。
• Effects range from headaches and vomiting to kidney failure and eventually coma, convulsions, and death.
  症状有头疼、恶心甚至还会出现昏迷、抽搐和死亡。
• The final solar convulsions will wipe out all life on the planet.
  太阳的最后灾变将把地球上的一切生命消灭干净。
• The doctor treated him for convulsions.
  医生医治了他的惊厥。
• A drug used to treat or prevent convulsions ( as in epilepsy).
  一种用来治疗或制止抽搐（类似癫痫症）的药物。
• Her nervous illness often threw her into convulsions.
  她的神经疾患往往使她痉挛。
• Chytridiomycosis causes lethargy and convulsions, and thickens the skin that frogs breathe through.
  壶菌病会引起嗜睡和惊厥，并使得青蛙呼吸通道皮肤增厚。
• The person loses consciousness completely and has convulsions.
  这人完全失去了知觉而且还在抽搐。