panic attack vs fright

panic attack and fright both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
panic attack	Yes	No	No	No
fright	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, fright is a hypernym of panic attack; that is, fright is a word with a broader meaning than panic attack:

panic attack: a sudden attack of fear
fright: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

Other hypernyms of panic attack include fear, fearfulness.

panic attack (noun)	fright (noun)
a sudden attack of fear	an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

panic attack (verb)	fright (verb)
	cause fear in