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Definition of Grand mal epilepsy
1. Noun. Epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking.
Medical Definition of Grand mal epilepsy
1. Older term for epilepsy characterised by generalised tonic-clonic seizure. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grand Mal Epilepsy
Literary usage of Grand mal epilepsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"As is well known, grand mal epilepsy is usually infrequent in cases that show
bizarre or fragmentary attacks. The attacks of nocturnal petit mal invariably ..."
2. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The fact that approximately 50 percent of those with grand mal epilepsy consistently
have a seizure warning aura greatly improves prospects for employment, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Status occurs mainly in connection with grand mal epilepsy, hence it is chiefly
characterized by convulsions, either general or local, ..."
4. Epilepsy and Its Treatment by William Philip Spratling (1904)
"ILLUSTRATIVE CASES OF grand mal epilepsy. Under this I shall describe both regular
and irregular forms of the disease, assuming that the regular or ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"In one there was senile dementia, in another grand mal epilepsy, in another
tuberculosis, in the parents. A few interesting facts concerning the earliest ..."
6. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1879)
"About this time he had a» attack of what was doubtless grand mal epilepsy.
A little further along he became possessed of the delusion that other person* ..."
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