Med. [Gr. κάτοχος (Galen) = κατοχή; see prec.] ‘An old term for catalepsy. Also, for an affection similar to catalepsy, but with rigidity of the limbs; also, for coma-vigil’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath., I. xi. (1712), 35. The Nerves … have no sense, as is demonstrable from a Catalepsis or Catochus.
1851. H. Mayo, Pop. Superst. (ed. 2), 81. A second [kind of spasm] is catochus.
