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"SEIZURES" is a plural of: seizure. |
Date "SEIZURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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Synonyms: SEIZURESSynonyms: Confiscations, Searches and seizures. (additional references) |
Crosswords: SEIZURES |
| English words defined with "SEIZURES": apyretic tetanus ♦ bitter salts ♦ Depokene ♦ epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, Epsom salts, ergotism ♦ generalized seizure, grand mal ♦ intermittent cramp, intermittent tetanus ♦ Mysoline ♦ petit mal, primidone ♦ tetanilla, tetany ♦ valproic acid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SEIZURES": Anticonvulsants ♦ Carbohydrate-Deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome, Cerebral Hemorrhage, Traumatic, Clonazepam ♦ DEPUTY SHERIFF, COMMANDER, CIVIL DIVISION, Dilantin Infatab, Dilantin Kapseals ♦ Epilepsies, Myoclonic, Epilepsy, Partial, Motor, Epilepsy, Partial, Sensory, epilepticus ♦ High Pressure Neurological Syndrome, Hypertensive Encephalopathy ♦ Phenytoin Sodium, Extended, Phenytoin Sodium, Prompt ♦ Soman ♦ Tuberculoma, Intracranial. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Under 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 | 1829-1837 | The 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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 97.58% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SEIZURES": Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures. Additional references. | |
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| 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 приступ (access, attack, bout, fit, fit of, seizure, stroke, tantrum). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SEIZURES": subseizures. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SEIZURES" (pronounced sē"zherz) |
| 3 | -zh er z | Arbitragers, arbitrageurs, braziers, closures, countermeasures, disclosures, enclosures, exposures, foreclosures, measures, pleasures, treasures. |
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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. | |
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