Pathol. [a. and ad. mod.L. eclampsia, as if a. Gr. *ἐκλαμψία, regularly f. ἐκλάμπειν to shine forth. Cf. Fr. éclampsie.] ‘Epileptiform convulsions dependent on some actual disturbance of the nervous centers caused by anatomical lesion’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). So also Eclamptic a., affected with, or characteristic of eclampsia; (the less correct form eclampsic has been also used).
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 823. Epileptiform convulsions, or eclampsia … are to be discriminated by means of the … symptoms.
1857. Bullock, trans. Cazeaux’s Midwifery, 295. Eclamptic patients.
1886. Syd. Soc. Lex., Idiocy, eclampsic … One of Ireland’s divisions, including those cases that have followed infantile convulsions.
