| During a convulsion, the child's arms and legs stiffen because the muscles are contracting. |
| There may be an initial violent convulsion or minor stimulation may trigger violent convulsions. |
| It may present as a convulsion, unusual body movement, change in awareness or simply a blank stare. |
| The convulsion had relinquished its grip, and Juan had slipped into a catatonic-like requiescence. |
| Then the TV glows to life and fills with jumpy, amateur-hour footage of some kind of mass convulsion. |
| Every thirty seconds or so a violent convulsion would shake her and she would tense then lie backwards, wheezing and moaning. |
