eclampsia
- n a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
- His purpose was to cause cancer; instead, the rats developed eclampsia.
- Various degrees of blood poisoning, including the deadliest form known as eclampsia (marked by coma and convulsions), are somehow involved in a pregnant woman's kidney disturbances.
- He explained that in eclampsia the child poisons the mother's blood and the mother's blood in turn poisons the child.