Eclampsia

(ek-lamp’ ’-se-ah) [f/cAd//7rrav, to shine or burst forth]. An acute nervous affection, characterized by convulsions with lo of consciousne . E., Infantile, a reflex convulsion of childhood. E., Puerperal, a convulsion occurring toward the close of pregnancy, or after labor, believed to be caused by the irritation of the vasomotor centers by retained excrementitious substances. 251