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Definition of Cataplexy

1. n. A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles.

Definition of Cataplexy

1. Noun. (medicine) An abrupt loss of muscle tone, sometimes associated with narcolepsy. ¹

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Definition of Cataplexy

1. [n -PLEXIES]

Medical Definition of Cataplexy

1. A sudden loss of muscle tone that may be induced by severe mental shock or as an additional feature of narcolepsy. (16 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Cataplexy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Date Rape Drugs: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of edited by Fred Upton (1999)
"For many years, doctors have treated cataplexy with anti-depressants. ... About 10 years ago, FDA learned that GHB could treat cataplexy in a very different ..."

2. Strategy Development Workshop on Sleep Education: Summary Report edited by Barbara J. Fink, Susan T. Shero (1998)
"The auxiliary symptoms are cataplexy, sleep onset paralysis, and sleep onset hypnagogic hallucinations. In a study that included 222 narcolepsy patients, ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Should this type of explanation be regarded as satisfactory, the term cataplexy would no longer be appropriate for the phenomenon in question. ..."

4. A Treatise on nervous and mental diseases by Landon Carter Gray (1895)
"During this period of cataplexy birds and chickens keep their eyes wide open, glance around, move their heads aud necks in order todo it, and yet remain in ..."

5. Hypnotism by Auguste Forel (1907)
"He called this condition, therefore, cataplexy, or fright rigidity. ... In attempting to prove cataplexy and his lactic acid theory of sleep, ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"... explain certain behavior of wolves, foxes, and some other animals, usually set down to deliberate feigning, also by an effect analogous to cataplexy. ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1889)
"... also by an effect analogous to cataplexy. He thinks their senses are stupefied by surprise, terror, etc., so that they are unable to escape. ..."

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