eclampsia

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Recent Examples of eclampsia Interestingly, breakthroughs in women’s healthcare, like the recent discovery about pre-eclampsia, have revealed how conditions traditionally thought to affect women can be linked to factors involving men’s health as well. Britney Porter, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Experts say there appear to be several risk factors, including pregnancies involving twins or other multiples, a maternal age of 35 or older and high blood pressure, including pre-eclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication characterized by elevated blood pressure. Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025 Hodson said Hughes had been diagnosed with pre-eclampsia late in her pregnancy but was otherwise healthy. Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025 In some instances, preeclampsia can lead to severe complications, including eclampsia and HELLP syndrome. Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for eclampsia
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Noun
  • Listeriosis can result in fever, muscle aches, headaches, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • About 1 in 1,000 also suffers swelling of the brain called encephalitis, which can lead to convulsions, deafness or intellectual disability.
    Alix Martichoux, The Hill, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Sale stayed healthy last season until back spasms forced him to miss his final regular-season start and also kept him off the postseason roster for the wild-card series at San Diego, where the Braves were swept in two games.
    David O'Brien, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • Such spasm of small blood vessels in the brain can also result in cognitive issues related to repairing and stabilizing such blood vessel abnormalities, whether by traditional opening of the skull (craniotomy) or even novel endovascular neurosurgical approaches.
    Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • For younger women, this includes resources addressing fertility, family life, workforce reemergence, financial health and managing long-term risk of recurrence.
    Carolyn Bhakta, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
  • In a fifty-eight-year-old survivor of breast cancer with a strong family history of the disease, a new lump near the original site likely signals recurrence—intervention is warranted.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Eve is one of four children belonging to the late Apple founder who died in 2011 after complications from a relapse of a rare form of pancreatic cancer.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 25 June 2025
  • Using her own relapse as bait, Bree managed to coax Sanchez back into his own past drug addiction to protect her family, inadvertently causing his death by overdose.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 20 June 2025

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“Eclampsia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eclampsia. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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