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A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia
Borrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
eclàmpsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Chinese Mandarin:
子癇 /子痫
(zǐxián)
— complication of pregnancy
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Esperanto:
eklampsio
— complication of pregnancy
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Finnish:
raskauskouristus
— complication of pregnancy
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French:
éclampsie
— complication of pregnancy
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German:
Eklampsie
— complication of pregnancy
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German:
Fraisen
— complication of pregnancy
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Greek:
εκλαμψία
(eklampsía)
— complication of pregnancy
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Indonesian:
eklamsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Indonesian:
eklampsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Irish:
eaclaimsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Italian:
eclampsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Japanese:
子癇
(shikan)
— complication of pregnancy
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Korean:
자간
(jagan)
— complication of pregnancy
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Latin:
eclampsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Polish:
eklampsja
— complication of pregnancy
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Polish:
rzucawka
— complication of pregnancy
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Portuguese:
eclâmpsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Russian:
эклампсия
(eklampsija)
— complication of pregnancy
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Serbo-Croatian:
фра̑з
— complication of pregnancy
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Serbo-Croatian:
фра̑с
— complication of pregnancy
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Serbo-Croatian:
frȃz
— complication of pregnancy
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Serbo-Croatian:
frȃs
— complication of pregnancy
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Spanish:
eclampsia
— complication of pregnancy
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Vietnamese:
sản giật
— complication of pregnancy
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Vietnamese:
sản kinh
— complication of pregnancy