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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