panic attack

English

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.

   There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.

Translations

sudden period of intense anxiety

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: atac de pànic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚恐發作／惊恐发作 (jīngkǒng fāzuò), 惊恐发作 (jīngkǒng fāzuò)

• Czech: záchvat paniky m
• Danish: panikanfald n
• Dutch: paniekaanval (nl) m
• Finnish: paniikkikohtaus (fi)
• French: attaque de panique f
• German: Panikattacke (de) f
• Greek: κρίση πανικού f (krísi panikoú)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pánikroham
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• Icelandic: felmtursröskun
• Italian: attacco di panico m
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: үрей шабуыл (ürei şabuyl)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: ataque de pânico m
• Russian: паническая атака (ru) f (panicheskaya ataka)
• Spanish: ataque de pánico m
• Swedish: panikattack (sv) c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• panic disorder