an episode of acute and disabling anxiety associated with such physical symptoms as hyperventilation and sweating
See also panic disorder
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pan′ic attack′, [Psychiatry.]
- Psychiatryan intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.
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