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panic attack′, [Psychiatry.]
  1. Psychiatryan intense attack of anxiety characterized by feelings of impending doom and trembling, sweating, pounding heart, and other physical symptoms.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
panic attack
  1. an episode of acute and disabling anxiety associated with such physical symptoms as hyperventilation and sweating
    See also panic disorder

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