As the lips contracted with the convulsive twitchings of death, they gave to his grim visage a species of sardonic grin that rendered it doubly terrific.
The bodily twitchings and odd gestures which attracted so much attention as he rolled about the streets were symptoms of painful twitchings and gestures within.
They were both delirious, with parched dry Tongues, slight Twitchingsof the Tendons, and other bad Symptoms; and one of them had a continual Vomiting and Purging.
The 23d, the comatose Symptoms had increased, and he had slight Twitchings of the Tendons, a dry brown-coloured Tongue, and a Faultering in his Speech.
On the 29th, he was much more sensible, his Tongue more moist, and the Twitchings of the Tendons much less; and in the Evening he fell into a profuse Sweat, which lasted all the 30th.
Some fibrillary twitchings at the right angle of the mouth have also arrested my attention.
Did I say that I had strange fibrillary twitchings at the right angle of my mouth, and a brain on fire?
Strychnia will do this to a certain extent, but its use may be contra-indicated by twitchings or convulsions from the toadstools.
The Great Dane passed from suspicious rigidity and threatening lip twitchings to mighty and frivolous gambolings, and Thomas Jefferson got up to give him room.
When the twitchingswhich I have described begin to appear, a seton is necessary, whatever may be the degree to which the animal is reduced.
But it should be discontinued immediately on the appearance of any constitutional symptoms, such as spasmodic twitchings of the eyelids or muzzle.
There will also be twitchings of some part of the frame, and usually of the mouth, cheek, or eyelid.
In isolated cases one may observe convulsive twitchings of the voluntary and involuntary musculature.
Upon being approached by any one his gait seemed to become definitely less steady, and diffused twitchingsof the thigh and leg were noted.
In grave cases painful muscle-cramps, subsultus tendinum, twitchings of particular muscles, and tremblings of the hands occur.
Twitchings of the muscles of the face, and even general convulsions, are sometimes seen.
The physician who remained pulled off a blister-plaster that had been put on one of the feet, when the lady gave feeble signs of life by twitchings about the mouth.
Muscular twitchingswere noted whenever the heavens were overclouded by a storm, or whenever clouds charged with electricity were passed above the conductor.
While seeking for the cause of these twitchings the idea of animal electricity came to him.
In doing this he touched the nerve-muscle preparation, as this has come to be called, with the scalpel and little forceps simultaneously, with the result that twitchings occurred.
The soldier, who was frightened by his Commander's angry tone, was silent: he could only produce one or two nervous twitchings of the eyebrows.
Biek-Agamalov handed Romashov a glass of water, and his teeth could be heard chattering, through the convulsive twitchings of his lower jaw, against the side of the glass.
He also had attacks of convulsions, in which he became unconscious, twitchings appeared, but the tongue was not bitten.
He remained somewhat unsteady in station, showing bilateral twitchingsand movements of the right leg muscles.
The patient lay down on the bed, cried aloud, and had rhythmic twitchings and sudden movements with arms and legs.
Here complained oftwitchings in the frontals and corrugators.
The patient was unconscious for several hours after the injury, and later suffered with severe headache, and twitchings in the left shoulder and arm.
At the end of two months he was well enough to be sent home; there was only a trace of facial weakness; the right upper extremity, however, was powerless and slightly rigid, occasional twitchings occurring in it.
The wound healed, but a well-marked groove was palpable in the bone beneath, and the twitchings persisted.
The twitchings became more frequent and latterly were accompanied by somewhat severe muscular contractions in the upper extremity, while the loss of power in the lower extremity became more marked.
The convulsions commenced in the muscles of the face, and the twitchingsthen became general.
His dark eyes gleamed, and there were twitchings in the maze of wrinkles that surrounded them.
In five minutes he was completely unconscious, and had muscular twitchings about the limbs and face.
Dilatation of the pupils is frequent, but not constant; there may be convulsions, both of a clonic and tonic character, before death, but fibrillartwitchings are seldom.
He found that soon after the sting the animal remains quiet, but on irritation it moves, and is thrown into a transitory convulsion; to this follow twitchings of single muscular bundles.
Now appear twitchings and contractions of single groups of muscles, and this excitement becomes general.
Convulsive twitchingsof the face alone, and also muscular twitchings only of the legs, have been noticed.
There are, as symptoms, noises in the head, convulsive trembling and twitchings of the muscles, with difficulty of breathing.
There may be also formicating feelings, and twitchings in the muscles with occasionally the tetanic cramps, which are constantly seen in frogs.
During her slumbers, which are short, there are slight twitchings of the eyes and mouth, and in her sleep the eyes are in constant restless motion, and she frequently starts.
Makes seventeen pints of water; has twitchings of his limbs in a morning, and pains of his legs: he now takes a dram of rosin for a dose, and continues the opium.
Water eleven pints: twitchings less; takes five scruples for a dose.
The rising in the throat of this patient, and the twitchings of his limbs, seem to indicate some similarity between the diabetes and the hysteric disease, besides the great flow of pale urine, which is common to them both.
On the Monday before she died she was in bed apparently comfortable, when I observed (as I stood by her side) several slight convulsive twitchings of her arms.
In the animals upon which I have experimented twitchingsin the ears and difficulty of breathing having been the premonitory symptoms.
The sick Person seems to labour under great Anguish: he has sometimes slight convulsive Motions and Twitchings in his Face and his Hands, as well as in his Arms and Legs.
In 1759 particularly, it was very common for numbers of people who escaped the dysentery to be troubled with flatulencies, slight gripings and twitchings in the belly, which was generally attended with blackish stools.
He never moved; the twitchings of his face were terrible to behold.
He feasted on her sense of shame and on the angry twitchings of the musician, tied, bound, and gagged.
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