Is there a word, medical or otherwise, for having a seizure?
The best I can come up with is convulsing or flailing. Any better ones?
Is there a word, medical or otherwise, for having a seizure?
The best I can come up with is convulsing or flailing. Any better ones?
What about "spasm?" It's traditionally defined as a noun, though I've also seen it defined as an intransitive verb:
When convulsing, your body spasms.
To seize can be used as an intransitive verb with the meaning:
To shake meaning to tremble, mainly in the expression having the shakes
I'm not a linguist by any means but with one of my foster dogs that has seizures, I've taken to making the word into a verb. For example: my dog seizured last night, my dog is seizuring right now. It may not be a real word but people know what I mean when I say it.
Consider "to buck and writhe" and "get/take sick with convulsions."
He falls on the floor and starts bucking and writhing. He's having an epileptic fit: a doctor jogs over and tends to him.
When I was small, I got sick with convulsions and everyone thought I was dying.