A characteristic, painful cough is present, but it is paroxysmal and incomplete.
The animal has a remarkably forcible cough, distressing, and of a special hacking and paroxysmal character.
The paroxysmalpain which is characteristic of the early stages of appendicitis may be accompanied by fever, sometimes low and sometimes high, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Whilst the minimum paroxysmal interval may be a year or two, the average interval is from five to ten years of comparative repose.
While sensible seismic influence is generally limited to the average width of the band, paroxysmal efforts are occasionally propagated to great distances transversely beyond that.
It is not very troublesome at first, but by the fourth day it becomes more frequent, assuming a hoarse, barking, paroxysmal character.
Cases are met with in the human subject, as in the dog, in which the paroxysmal stage is omitted in greater part or entirely.
Its symptoms include severe paroxysmal pain in the head or neck or extremities, with vomiting, loss of consciousness, convulsions, and involuntary evacuation of excrements.
If this theory is true, it helps us in explaining why the large, mediate, and smaller bronchi are closed during the expiratory stage of the paroxysmal cough of pertussis.
The long residence of the poison in the system may render additional doses possible, until a point of saturation is reached which occasions paroxysmal explosions.
The cough loses its hacking, paroxysmal character, and becomes less and less frequent, and gradually disappears.
It is apt to be frequent and distressing--sometimes paroxysmal from the beginning of the sickness, almost always so at some period of its course.
The diagnosis of rabies and hydrophobia is not usually difficult if the disease has progressed to itsparoxysmal stage.
It is convenient to group the very varied symptoms of hysteria into paroxysmaland chronic.
They may be spoken of as inter-paroxysmal and paroxysmal.
Similar paroxysmal catastrophes have caused in historical times the truncation on a grand scale of some large cones in Java and elsewhere.
Paroxysmal sneezing is another form in which asthma may show itself, and, curiously enough, this form occurs more frequently in women, asthma of the more recognized type in men.
For the first few days the cough was almost dry, and so purely paroxysmal as to remind Sydenham of the whooping-cough of children.
In acute rheumatism, the muscles generate heat without doing any work; in dysentery there is often febrile heat (although not invariably), and the work of the involuntary muscle is paroxysmal and ineffective.
But in natural or ordinary whooping-cough there is no mechanical irritation, there is nothing to cough up, the reflex action, violent and paroxysmal though it be, has apparently no motive.
Without attaching pathognomonic significance to stigmata, we may remark how seldom they are encountered among those who suffer from tic, and how rarely the latter exhibit any of the paroxysmal manifestations of hysteria.
It might then be more exact, perhaps, to use the epithet paroxysmal in reference to the external manifestations of tics, but it signifies little what word we employ provided we are familiar with the clinical facts.
Defn: Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.
Defn: Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thing, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the sciatic nerve.
These cases of so-called spinal irritation with general hysteric manifestations are very commonly attended with paroxysmal pains that approach true neuralgia in character.
It is by the more generalized character of the symptoms, and the absence of the tendency to perpetual recurrence of paroxysmal pain in one definite nerve, that spinal irritation is mainly distinguishable from true neuralgia.
The cases are those of two female children, aged nine and eleven respectively, in whom the principal symptom was violent and paroxysmal neuralgic headache.
In this case, before the development of any marked anginal symptoms, the paroxysmal pain, from being merely intercostal, had come to extend itself into the left shoulder and arm.
He also thinks the distinction between paroxysmal and lancinating pains too indefinite to serve as a sufficiently reliable basis of diagnosis, especially considering the endless nuances of the form which the pain is apt to take.
It may be continuous or paroxysmal and may be of so serious a degree as to threaten starvation.
Sudden shutting off of the expiratory blast and the phonation during paroxysmal cough is almost pathognomonic of a movable tracheal foreign body.
An intermittent or paroxysmal character of fevers was made out on various grounds, to suit the traditional Galenic or Greek teaching; but the paroxysms and intermissions were not associated specially with rise and fall of the body-temperature.
In the inter-paroxysmal state the condition of the patients were-- Healthy in every respect in 17.
Aconite Liniment: to outside of nose in paroxysmalsneezing and coryza.
Lobelia: when cough is paroxysmal and there is much expectoration slightly nauseant expectorants are good combined with opium.
Arsenic: internally, or as cigarettes, in paroxysmal and chronic cases: valuable In cases which exactly simulate hay fever.
Chloroform: with a low dose of opium and glycerin in violent paroxysmal cough; if very violent to be painted over the throat.
Arsenic: in paroxysmal sneezing as usually ushers-in hay fever.
Deprive this of its paroxysmal character; subdue, but diffuse it over every part of the system, and you have the so-called pleasurable feelings of incipient freezing.
His cry resembled the inter-paroxysmal yell of a very small boy undergoing spanking.
This ship was ten miles south of the volcano on Sunday afternoon, and therefore well in sight of the island at the time when the volcano had entered upon its paroxysmal state of action.
Sometimes there has been a large discharge of lava, and little or no escape of steam; at other times there have been paroxysmal explosive eruptions with little discharge of lava.
Attacks of cardiac delirium (often auricular fibrillation) may occur with serious lesions of the heart, as valvular disease or sclerosis, but paroxysmal tachvcardia occurs in certain persons without any tangible cardiac excuse.
Paroxysmal tachycardias are certainly caused by these substances, and the conditions of auricular fibrillation and auricular flutter may be found frequently present if such hearts are carefully examined with cardiographic instruments.
Some patients, both men and women, cannot take even a small cup of tea or coffee without an attack of paroxysmal tachycardia.
It is different from paroxysmal tachycardia, in which the heart rate rarely exceeds 180 per minute.
Paroxysmal tachycardia is a name applied to very rapid heart attacks in persons who are more or less subject to their recurrence.
The emotional symptoms of both mitral incompetence and paroxysmal tachycardia may involve anxiety and panic attacks.
Paroxysmal tachycardia is another heart condition, in which the heartbeat suddenly speeds up to 160 beats per minute or more.
The effects on the air of minor paroxysmal outbreaks are also recorded by this instrument; but barometers in the most distant places record the same disturbance.
After a short time, he developed paroxysmal attacks of maniacal excitement.
But there were paroxysmal crises in which the pulse rose to 180 and in which the patient fell into a state of great anxiety.
In short, he showed a mental confusion associated with paroxysmal excitement due to cerebral and cutaneous hyperesthesia.
On returning to the front, he had to be sent back to hospital with a note, “not fit for service, nervous troubles and paroxysmal tachycardia.
There was no change in mental state, tachycardia, or paroxysmal seizures in two months, except that he gained weight.
The disease progressed with dysphagia, stiffness and paroxysmal hypertonia of the legs, especially of the right leg, fixed orthotonus of the trunk, neck hyperextended, arms stiff but able to move.
But on the 26th of August a succession of paroxysmal explosions began which lasted till the morning of the 28th.
The amount of material discharged during the two days of paroxysmal energy was enormous, though there are no satisfactory data for even approximately estimating it.
It would be necessary to balance protracted periods of inaction against the occasional outburst of paroxysmal explosions.
Paroxysmal convulsions are usually followed, in both cases, by long periods of tranquillity.
