eclampsia

Meaning

Noun

A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.

Origin

From the New Latin eclampsia, after a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *ἐκλαμψία, derived regularly from the extant verb ἐκλάμπω. Compare the French éclampsie.

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