SEIZURES

  

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SEIZURES

"SEIZURES" is a plural of: seizure.

Date "SEIZURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)


Specialty Definition: SEIZURES

DomainDefinition

Health

Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. Recurrent seizures are usually referred to as epilepsy or "seizure disorder." (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: SEIZURES

Synonyms: Confiscations, Searches and seizures. (additional references)

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Crosswords: SEIZURES

English words defined with "SEIZURES": apyretic tetanusbitter saltsDepokeneepilepsia major, epilepsia minor, Epsom salts, ergotismgeneralized seizure, grand malintermittent cramp, intermittent tetanusMysolinepetit mal, primidonetetanilla, tetanyvalproic acid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SEIZURES": AnticonvulsantsCarbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic, ClonazepamDEPUTY SHERIFF, COMMANDER, CIVIL DIVISION, Dilantin Infatab, Dilantin KapsealsEpilepsies, Myoclonic, Epilepsy, Partial, Motor, Epilepsy, Partial, Sensory, epilepticusHigh Pressure Neurological Syndrome, Hypertensive EncephalopathyPhenytoin Sodium, Extended, Phenytoin Sodium, PromptSomanTuberculoma, Intracranial. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SEIZURES

DomainTitle

References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Seizures and Epilepsy (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Febrile Seizures (reference)

  • The Child With Febrile Seizures (reference)

  • Canine Epilepsy: An Owner's Guide to Living With and Without Seizures (reference)

  • Childhood Seizures (Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Vol 6) (reference)

  • The Dentate Gyrus and Its Role in Seizures (Epilepsy Research Supplement, No 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SEIZURES

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Pulmonary disease common symptoms are fever, cough, and chest pain; for central nervous system disease symptoms are usually headache, lethargy, confusion, seizures, and sudden onset of neurologic deficit. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: SEIZURES

AuthorDateQuotation

US Bill of Rights

1795

Amendment IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

These troops shall abstain from all requisitions and seizures and from any other coercive measures, with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany, and shall in no way interfere with such measures for national defence as may be adopted by the Provisional Governments of Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: SEIZURES

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Seizures or epilepsy. (references)

Seizures in the newborn. (references)

Seizures may also be present. (references)

Business

To expand communal land holdings, for decades peasants have invaded private lands and petitioned for government recognition of the seizures. (references)

Civil Liberties

Maldives

No seizures of foreign publications were reported during the year. (references)

Greece

However, seizures are very rare, and there were none during the year. (references)

Hong Kong

When the protesters replaced the signs and banners the following day with identical ones, police warned of additional seizures, but the protests, with banners, continued through the end of the year with no further police action. (references)

Economic History

Oman

There is no contemporary history of arbitrary seizures of land. (references)

Israel

In 1999 and 2000, Israeli Customs increased its seizures of counterfeit goods entering Israeli ports. (references)

Ecuador

After a drop-off in such seizures for some years, several U.S. tuna boats were again detained and seized in 1980 and 1981. (references)

Human Rights

India

The police must obtain warrants for searches and seizures. (references)

Malaysia

Police also have used raids and document seizures to harass defendants. (references)

Zimbabwe

Several white commercial farmers were killed during the year; however, it was unclear if any of the attacks were connected to land seizures. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

The Basic Agrarian Law states that land rights cannot be "in conflict with national and state interests," which provides the Government with a broad legal basis for land seizures. (references)

Chile

On July 25, in Temuco between 500 and 1,000 persons protested the arraignment of indigenous people accused of illegal land seizures and the execution of a search warrant and confiscation of evidence in the offices of an indigenous activist organization. (references)

Political Economy

ISRAEL

On the positive side, Israeli Customs has increased its seizures of counterfeit goods entering Israel. (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

Arbitrary seizures of goods, or seizures based on ex-post-facto application of new laws or regulations, are not uncommon. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: SEIZURES

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Under this new law of the ocean our trade on the Mediterranean has been swept away by seizures and condemnations, and that in other seas is threatened with the same fate.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The sole ground on which indemnity has been refused is the alleged illegality of the tenure by which the monarch who made the seizures held his crown.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: SEIZURES

"SEIZURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.58% of the time. "SEIZURES" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)97.58%12129,211
Lexical Verb (-s form)1.61%2245,945
Noun (proper)0.81%1339,140
                    Total100.00%124N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SEIZURES

Expression using "SEIZURES": Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SEIZURES

Language Translations for "SEIZURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

status epilepticus (prolonged epileptic seizures, status epilepticus), ubunden epilepsi (epilepsy with fortuitous epileptic seizures), recidiverende status epilepticus (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), epilepsia minor (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure), epilepsi med tetaniforme anfald (epilepsy with tetanoid epileptic seizures). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

status epilepticus (petit mal status, prolonged epileptic seizures, status epilepticus), recurrerend epileptisch insulte (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), epilepsie met absences (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

toistuva epileptinen kohtaus (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), pikkukohtaus (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure), petit mal (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure). (various references)

   

French

  

crise d'épilepsie récurrente (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), état de MAL épileptique (prolonged epileptic seizures), épilepsie type "petit mal", épilepsie avec crises fortuites (epilepsy with fortuitous epileptic seizures), épilepsie avec crises épileptiques tétanoïdes (epilepsy with tetanoid epileptic seizures). (various references)

   

German

  

Ergreifungen, Beschlagnahmen (appropriate, confiscate, engross, hog, impound, levy, monopolize, requisition, seize, sequestrate, to confiscate, to engross, to impound). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μικρή επιληψία (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure), υποτροπιάζουσα κρίση επιληψίας (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), επιληψία τύπου petit mal (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

epilessia di tipo "piccolo male", crisi epilettiche ricorrenti (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eizuressay

   

Russian 

  

приступ (access, attack, bout, fit, fit of, seizure, stroke, tantrum). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estado epiléptico (prolonged epileptic seizures, status epilepticus), crisis recurrente (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), crisis epiléptica recurrente (reactive seizures, recurrent seizures), crisis de ausencia (absence seizures, generalized nonconvulsive seizure, petit mal epilepsia, petit mal seizure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SEIZURES

Derivations

Words ending with "SEIZURES": subseizures. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SEIZURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eizure, Saisuree, seigure, seisure, seiure, seizoure, seizue, seizur, seizured, seizurel, seizurs, seziure, siesure, siezure, siezures, silures, sizure. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SEIZURES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SEIZURES" (pronounced sē"zherz)
3-zh er zArbitragers, arbitrageurs, braziers, closures, countermeasures, disclosures, enclosures, exposures, foreclosures, measures, pleasures, treasures.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SEIZURES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-r-s-s-u-z"

-1 letter: reissue, resizes, seisure, seizers, seizure.

-2 letters: issuer, resize, reuses, seiser, seizer, seizes, series, sieurs, sirees, sizers.

-3 letters: erses, issue, reuse, rises, risus, ruses, seers, seise, seize, seres, sieur, siree, sires, sizer, sizes, suers, users.

-4 letters: eses, ires, rees, reis, rise, rues, ruse, seer, sees, seis, sere, sers, sire, sirs, size, sris, suer, sues, sure.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-r-s-s-u-z"
 

+1 letter: suberizes, supersize.

 

+2 letters: pressurize, subseizure, supersized.

 

+3 letters: pasteurizes, pressurized, pressurizer, pressurizes, secularizes, securitizes, subseizures, trapeziuses.

 

+4 letters: depressurize, desulfurizes, pasteurizers, pressurizers, repressurize, secularizers, suzerainties.

 

+5 letters: depressurized, depressurizes, repressurized, repressurizes, universalizes, unpressurized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Historic
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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