What's the difference between eclampsia and eclampsy?
Eclampsia
Definition:
(n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Example Sentences:
(1) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(2) Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.
(3) From 1980 to 1986, head computed tomographic scans were performed in 49 women with eclampsia managed according to the standardized regimen used at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
(4) Preeclampsia-eclampsia and trophoblastic disease have been associated with a wormlike organism, Hydatoxi lualba, recently discovered in smears from circulating blood, trophoblastic tumor tissue, and placental tissue of toxemic patients.
(5) Some cases of eclampsia and severe pre-eclampsia satisfy all the criteria for the diagnosis of TTP syndrome.
(6) The most common causes of direct obstetrical deaths were hemorrhage, infection and vascular accidents, in that order; pre-eclampsia ranked a distant fourth.
(7) No strong pattern of differences from normal pregnancy or pre-eclampsia emerged when growth retarded infants were studied as a separate group.
(8) Some investigators have described immunohistologic findings (presence of IgM, IgG and fibrin) which they believe specific for pre-eclampsia, and others have claimed the disease may cause focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS).
(9) At age of one day manifested an eclampsia, which was hardly diminishable.
(10) Oxygen free radicals and lipid peroxides might form the link between the hypothetical immunologic maladaptation and the endothelial cell damage known to occur in pre-eclampsia.
(11) The patients with pre-eclampsia showed a greater degree of immunosuppression during pregnancy than the normotensive controls.
(12) The major causes of maternal mortality were haemorrhage, obstructed labour, eclampsia, anaemia of pregnancy and infection.
(13) Plasma levels of antithrombin III were tested during pregnancy in a control group of normal patients and in a study group that included patients with moderate and severe pre-eclampsia and chronic hypertension.
(14) Low zinc concentrations in plasma have been reported in pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia and intra-uterine growth retardation, as well as in non-pregnant individuals with gastrointestinal and eating disorders.
(15) The incidence of pre-eclampsia in 125 primigravidas who had previously received blood-transfusions was significantly less than in a matched series of controls--i.e., 12.8% compared with 23.2%.
(16) Eclampsia developed at less than or equal to 20 weeks in 6 patients and beyond 48 hours post partum in 40 (16%).
(17) In 32 cases the diagnosis was preeclampsia, in 8 cases--eclampsia, in 28 cases III degree nephropathy.
(18) Thus, rheological factors may be partly responsible for the clinical consequences of pre-eclampsia.
(19) Further, drugs currently administered to pregnant women for the treatment of pre-term labor and pre-eclampsia cross the placenta and can directly alter bladder function in the developing fetus and the neonate.
(20) A case of eclampsia with interesting angiographic findings is reported.
Eclampsy
Definition:
(n.) Same as Eclampsia.
Example Sentences:
(1) A historical survey on the subject of weather and eclampsy is given in the introduction, at the beginning of which the names Smellie (1752), Boutteilloux (1816), Lachapelle (1925) and Zangemeister (1900) are mentioned.