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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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