He is given credit for the first description of acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, and use terms such as, exacerbation, relapse, resolution, crisis, paroxysm, peak, and convalescence.
en.wikipedia.org Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college (collage).
en.wikipedia.org There's nothing like a taste of the underworld to send the upper-world into a paroxysm of vicarious joy.
www.theatlantic.com Conversely, if you have the stomach for such rampant silliness, it might propel you into paroxysms of delight.
en.wikipedia.org Simultaneously, the earth we embraced so dependently convulsed in violent paroxysm.
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