CATALEPTIC • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Cataleptic

... two minutes were conscientiously spent in inhaling oxygen. Even under the best cataleptic conditions, the body tended to slow down too much. He had to get himself prepared ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

... is that many adult women, and even children, some of whom were of the male sex, and not more than six years old, began to complain forthwith of palpitation, followed by faintness, which passed into a motionless and apparently cataleptic condition. These symptoms lasted more than an hour, and probably recurred frequently. In the course of time, however, this malady is said to have undergone a modification, such as it exhibits at the present day. Women whom it has attacked will suddenly fall down, toss their arms about, ...

— The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania • Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker