Unscramble

e 1 c 3 l 1 a 1 m 3 p 3 s 1 i 1 a 1

9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

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

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