"panic attack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: panic attacks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} panic attack (plural panic attacks)
  1. 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. Wikipedia link: panic attack Categories (topical): Psychology Related terms: panic disorder Translations (sudden period of intense anxiety): paniekaanval (Afrikaans), atac de pànic [masculine] (Catalan), 驚恐發作 (Chinese Mandarin), 惊恐发作 (jīngkǒng fāzuò) (Chinese Mandarin), záchvat paniky [masculine] (Czech), panikanfald [neuter] (Danish), paniekaanval [masculine] (Dutch), paniikkikohtaus (Finnish), crise d’angoisse [feminine] (French), crise de panique [feminine] (French), Panikattacke [feminine] (German), Panikanfall [masculine] (German), κρίση πανικού (krísi panikoú) [feminine] (Greek), pánikroham (Hungarian), felmtursröskun (Icelandic), attacco di panico [masculine] (Italian), パニック発作 (panikku-hossa) (Japanese), үрей шабуыл (ürei şabuyl) (Kazakh), panikkanfall [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), panikkanfall [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), atak paniki [masculine] (Polish), ataque de pânico m crise de pânico [feminine] (Portuguese), atac de panică [neuter] (Romanian), паниче́ская ата́ка (paničéskaja atáka) [feminine] (Russian), ataque de pánico [masculine] (Spanish), panikattack [common-gender] (Swedish), panik atak (Turkish), пані́чна ата́ка (paníčna atáka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.