Usually means: Severe form of epileptic seizure.
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  1. grand mal: Merriam-Webster
  2. grand mal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grand mal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grand mal: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. grand mal: Wiktionary
  7. grand mal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  15. grand mal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. grand mal: Encyclopedia

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  1. grand mal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (grand mal)

noun:  A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as severe and involve spasms and unconsciousness. A formal medical term would be tonic-clonic seizures.

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