Usually means: Rigid body, unresponsive to stimuli.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word catalepsy:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. catalepsy: Merriam-Webster
  2. catalepsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catalepsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catalepsy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catalepsy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catalepsy, catalepsy: Wordnik
  7. catalepsy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catalepsy: Wiktionary
  9. catalepsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. catalepsy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. catalepsy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. catalepsy: Dictionary.com
  13. Catalepsy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Catalepsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. catalepsy: Rhymezone
  16. Catalepsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. catalepsy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. catalepsy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. catalepsy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. catalepsy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catalepsy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. catalepsy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Catalepsy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  8. catalepsy: Medical dictionary
  9. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. Catalepsy: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catalepsy, Catalepsy, Catalepsy: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See catalepsies as well.)

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noun:  (pathology) A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions.

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