What's the difference between frenzy and seizure?

Frenzy


Definition:

  • (n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
  • (a.) Mad; frantic.
  • (v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
  • (2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (3) Updated at 2.49am BST 2.19am BST Before Rudd got into his press conference, there was a selfie frenzy on the oval at St Mary's.
  • (4) The fracking frenzy seems to be coming to an early end both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (5) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
  • (6) Morsi's opponents plan to organise massive protests on 30 June, the first anniversary of his election – a day that is the subject of frenzied speculation on both the Egyptian streets and in its media.
  • (7) Its use of Twitter and the hashtag #sherlocklives was rather more de rigeur, ensuring that the show was trending on Twitter as fans were sent into a frenzy by its imminent return.
  • (8) His team had been working on a protest-themed game for the past two years, and the frenzy surrounding Occupy Central gave them an excuse to release a prototype.
  • (9) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
  • (10) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
  • (11) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
  • (12) Let the games begin A week of awards-season frenzy begins on Sunday night in Hollywood with the Golden Globes .
  • (13) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (14) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
  • (15) Obama's first visit to South Africa as president is going ahead as planned despite the frenzy of anxiety and attention around Mandela's condition.
  • (16) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
  • (17) He followed ordinary protesters, including a teacher and a high school student, and captured frenzied clashes between police and demonstrators.
  • (18) As home secretary, Mrs May has responsibility for subjects that, in the past, have worked Tory conferences into a frenzy: crime, policing, immigration and drugs among them.
  • (19) An accountable, democratic government would have no doubt achieved a less frenzied, more sustainable economic rise, with less corruption and environmental devastation.
  • (20) Estate agents and homebuyers have reported frenzied demand for property in the capital, with homes attracting huge numbers of would-be buyers.

Seizure


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
  • (n.) Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership.
  • (n.) That which is seized, or taken possession of; a thing laid hold of, or possessed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The analysis of total seizure days showed a significant reduction during LTG treatment (p less than 0.002).
  • (2) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
  • (3) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
  • (4) The fringe of the seizure ("borderland of epilepsy") is briefly delineated.
  • (5) Out of 50 epileptics in 31 cases temporal-lobe epilepsy was present, in 15 the seizures and EEG changes were generalized, in 4 cases focal non-temporal-lobe epilepsy was recognized.
  • (6) The periodic pattern was assumed as subclinical focal seizure discharges from the right anterior temporal deep structures.
  • (7) Four had partial simple seizures with secondary generalisation and 3 had cortical excisions (2 frontal, 1 occipital lobe) surgery.
  • (8) The present study observed that a 40-dB hearing loss, beginning at 17 days postpartum, requires 2 days before it induces susceptibility to audiogenic seizures.
  • (9) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
  • (10) Upon lowering [K+]o and raising [Ca2+]o the IIBs disappeared and the seizures reappeared.
  • (11) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
  • (12) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
  • (13) Although uncommon, the occurrence of seizures and elevated aminotransferase values are potentially serious side effects of clomipramine.
  • (14) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
  • (15) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
  • (16) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (17) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
  • (18) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (19) Since pinealectomy has been reported to result in seizures in experimental animals, it is assumed that melatonin has anticonvulsant properties.
  • (20) The high positivity ELISA rates for cysticercosis in the CSF and in the patients serum with epilepsy indicate that neurocysticercosis is an important seizure cause in Londrina, PR.