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catalepsy

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catalepsy

In medicine, an abnormal state in which the patient is apparently or actually unconscious and the muscles become rigid.

There is no response to stimuli, and the rate of heartbeat and breathing is slow. A similar condition can be drug-induced or produced by hypnosis, but catalepsy as ordinarily understood occurs spontaneously in epilepsy, schizophrenia, and other nervous disorders. It is associated with catatonia.



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"It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy," said Challenger.
The Poison Belt by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
He went in again, and put his right hand on the latch of the door to close it--but he did not close it: he was arrested, as he had been already since his loss, by the invisible wand of catalepsy, and stood like a graven image, with wide but sightless eyes, holding open his door, powerless to resist either the good or the evil that might enter there.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
This letter interest me deeply, because the chief difficulty in the study of catalepsy is the rareness of the disease.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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