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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Both tonic and clonic.

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Examples

  • Gran or grand mal seizures -- also known as tonic-clonic seizures -- involve a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.

    FOXNews.com 2011

  • All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Central nervous system effects are also common and can vary from agitation to tonic-clonic seizures.

    Theophylline 2010

  • All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • All over the globe, according to this view, the same experience has been repeated: Some poor fellow suffers a generalized epileptic seizure—a “tonic-clonic seizure,” as it is now known to physicians.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Jesse had generalized tonic-clonic seizures that lasted from one to two minutes.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Jesse had generalized tonic-clonic seizures that lasted from one to two minutes.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Most often, though, they fall in a well-documented spectrum of mental and somatic anomalies, from the transient episodes of decreased awareness known as absence (formerly called "petit mal") to the tonic-clonic (or "grand mal") attack characterized by loss of consciousness, collapse and spasmodic stiffening and jerking.

    In the Grip of the Unknown 2009

  • Webbing will be put on as I managed to flip/fall out of this chair during a grand mal/tonic-clonic.

    See me in the powerchair! Also postcards, packages, isolation and no GP Elizabeth McClung 2009

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  • Gran or grand mal seizures -- also known as tonic-clonic seizures -- involve a loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions.

    June 25, 2015