panic attack
Noun
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Noun
panic attack (plural panic attacks)
- A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
- There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.
- French: attaque de panique
- German: Panikattacke
- Italian: attacco di panico
- Portuguese: ataque de pânico
- Russian: паниче́ская ата́ка
- Spanish: ataque de pánico
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