fitlike

comparative more fitlike · superlative most fitlike

1. Resembling a fit; sudden, spasmodic, and uncontrolled.

   The most characteristic feature of the suicidal act was its suddenness and fitlike character.

   1961, The Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery

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   […] fitlike seizures during pregnancy are epileptic in origin, when confronted by a case of convulsive attacks one should always consider the possibility of epilepsy.

   1944, Charles Owen McCormick, A Textbook on Pathology of Labor, the Puerperium and the Newborn

   Most of the patients presented with a single symptom, such as aphonia (inability to verbalize), fitlike movements[…]

   2018 December 20, Laeth Nasir, Arwa Kayed Abdul-Haq, Tony Lockett, Caring for Arab Patients: A Biopsychosocial Approach, CRC Press, →ISBN