Catalepsy

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catalepsy (kăt`əlĕp'sē), pathological condition characterized by a loss of consciousness accompanied by rigidity of muscles that keeps limbs in any position in which they are placed. Attacks vary from several minutes to days and occur in a variety of clinical syndromes, most frequently in schizophrenia, epilepsy, and hysteria.

catalepsy

a state of prolonged rigid posture, occurring for example in schizophrenia or in hypnotic trances

catalepsy [′kad·əl‚ep·sē]

(psychology)

Suspended animation with loss of voluntary motion associated with hysteria and the schizophrenic reactions in humans, and with organic nervous system disease in animals.

Catalepsy

the phenomenon of “waxy rigidity,” observed incatatonia or hypnotic sleep (hypnosis). With an increase in mus-cle tonus, there is an onset of rigidity (flexible rigidity), so thateither the entire body or the extremities remain in any positionin which they are placed.

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No references found			"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			catacumba catadioptric Catadioptric Systems Catadioptric Telescope catadromous catafalque catagelophobia Catagenesis Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge Catahoula Parish Catal Huyuk Çatal Hüyük Catalan Catalan art Catalan conjecture Catalan forge Catalan language Catalan literature Catalan numbers Catalan School Catalani, Angelica Catalans Catalase Catalaunian Fields catalectrotonus Catalepsy Catalexis Çatalhüyük Catalina Island Catalina State Park catalog catalog number catalog-order device cataloged procedure catalogue Catalonia Catalonian Mountains Catalpa Catalysis catalyst catalyst carrier Catalyst Poisons catalyst selectivity catalyst stripping Catalysts Catalysts, Biological catalytic activity catalytic antibody catalytic converter catalytic cracker catalytic cracking			Catalans catalase catalase catalase catalase catalase reaction Catalase Research Catalase Research Catalase Research Catalase test Catalase test Catalase test Catalase-Negative Staphylococcus Aureus Catalase-Negative, Urease-Positive Campylobacter catalatic catalatic catalatic Catalaunian Fields Catalaxy catalectic catalectic catalectrotonus Catalects Catalent Pharma Solutions catalepsies catalepsies catalepsies Catalepsis Catalepsis Catalepsis Catalepsy cataleptic cataleptic cataleptic Cataleptic Rigidity cataleptically cataleptically cataleptically cataleptics cataleptics cataleptics cataleptiform catalexes catalexes catalexis catalexis Çatalhöyük Çatalhüyük Catalina 22 National Sailing Association Catalina Association of Tacoma and South Sound Catalina cherry Catalina Croacker Catalina Croaker Catalina de Aragon y Castilla Catalina de Aragon y Castilla Catalina de Aragón y Castilla Catalina de Aragón y Castilla Catalina Environmental Leadership Program Catalina Foothills School District Catalina Highway Catalina Island

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