How to Use grand mal in a Sentence
grand mal
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The little girl who had 300 grand mal seizures a week went on to have only two or three a month.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 8 Apr. 2020
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My grand mal seizure left me with two thoughts: What is life going forward?
—Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
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Mitchell had epilepsy, and his grand mal seizures couldn’t be controlled with medication.
—Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
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The African lion fell in his enclosure and fractured his jaw after a grand mal seizure Sunday, zoo officials said Wednesday.
—Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 10 July 2019
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The syndrome caused Figi to have as many as 300 grand mal seizures a week, putting her in a wheelchair, barely able to speak, and undergoing repeated cardiac arrests.
—Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2020
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Going a bit deeper, tonic-clonic seizures (formerly known as a grand mal seizures), are how seizures are typically depicted in media.
—Patti Greco, Health.com, 18 Nov. 2021
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In 2014 the couple married, but Cobain's alleged drug use only intensified over the years, leading up to a grand mal seizure later that year that nearly killed Cobain at the couple's home while Silva was there with his young daughter, Arlo.
—Colin Stutz, Billboard, 31 May 2018
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After mixing both, Brian said Sadie’s grand mal seizures with violent muscle contractions were reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes.
—Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 18 May 2018
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Since developing epilepsy after sustaining an injury in the military, Liana Ruppert has endured four grand mal seizures.
—Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020
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And there are heartrending stories, like Samina Ali’s beautifully wrought Labor of Love, which recounts her arduous journey to learn to walk and write again after suffering a grand mal seizure and brain damage while giving birth to her son.
—Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018
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Each layer of this unusual family's history arrives via flickers of memory, and not all the layers are primly opaque: Rachel begins experiencing epilepsy's grand mal seizures.
—Bethanne Patrick, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
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