OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 49685

panic attack

Meanings (ES + gloss)
ataque de pánico
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.
I think I had a panic attack last night, a sense of rising panic and impending doom – chest tight, short of breath, shaking.
There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.
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