eclampsia

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Recent Examples of eclampsia In the third season, two of its top characters, Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) and Lady Sybil Branson (Jessica Brown Findlay), died from a motor accident and post-childbirth eclampsia, respectively. Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025 Symptoms of eclampsia include high blood pressure, headaches, blurry vision and convulsions. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 18 July 2025 The risk of pre-eclampsia, a dangerous hypertensive disorder that is poorly understood but remains a leading cause of maternal and perinatal mortality worldwide, is less than 5% among the general population of pregnant women. Sarah Varney, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2025 As fate would have it, once healed she was next hired by a foundation that worked to raise awareness about pre-eclampsia. Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for eclampsia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eclampsia
Noun
  • Symptoms include confusion, headaches, stiff neck, loss of balance, and convulsions.
    McClatchy Media, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Neurological symptoms may occur, too, like a stiff neck, disorientation, or convulsions.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This Hong Kong film’s guiding force is So Wa Wai (Chung-Hang Leung), a real athlete whose aspirations were nearly thwarted by cerebral spasms that made even walking difficult.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Dion has continued to battle stiff-person disorder, a rare disease that attacks the nervous system and causes pain and muscle spasms.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The recurrence reflects how geometry and growth push organisms toward the same solutions.
    Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2026
  • At the end of the trial, those who continued caffeinated coffee experienced a 47% recurrence rate of AF or atrial flutter, compared with 64% in the caffeine-abstinent group, translating to about a 39% lower risk of recurrence for coffee drinkers.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Young weaponizes addiction for profit, the insurance giant charges in a $40 million federal lawsuit, asserting that Young’s businesses cycled patients from one entity to another and encouraged relapse so that billing cycles could start anew.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Said to offer a level of care not currently available in any other local program, patients would be overseen by doctors and nurses who would oversee withdrawal management and therapy designed to prevent relapses.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Eclampsia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eclampsia. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.

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