Crisis

(kri'-sis), The turning-point in a disease, fever, time of life, etc., and in disease, marking a change either for the better or worse. C. clitoridiennes, periods of voluptuous excitement in women suffering with tabes dorsal is, accompanied by vaginal secretion, analogous to the violent erections and spermatorrhea found in men in the initial stages of tabes. C. gastriques, Charcot's term for certain gastric symptoms sometimes encountered in the course of progre ive locomotor ataxia. The symptoms are shooting pains in the groin and abdomen, ending finally in gastralgia, pains in the shoulders and arms, a quick pulse, and often vertigo and vomiting. C, Laryngeal, paroxysmal spasm of the larynx sometimes observed in cases of posterior spinal sclerosis.