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noun a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
originBorrowed from New Latin eclampsia, from French éclampsie, from Ancient Greek ἔκλᾰμψῐς (éklămpsĭs, “sudden development, violent onset”, literally “brightness”), from ἐκλᾰ́μπω (eklắmpō, “to shine or beam forth; to burst forth violently”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, nominal suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0