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Definition of Cortical epilepsy

1. Noun. Epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance).

Medical Definition of Cortical epilepsy

1. Epilepsy of various aetiologies characterised by focal seizures or secondarily generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Ictal symptoms are often related to the brain region where the seizure begins focally. Synonym: cortical epilepsy, local epilepsy, partial epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cortical Epilepsy

Literary usage of Cortical epilepsy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Fere states that in Jacksonian (cortical) epilepsy the patient is always awakened, so he is compelled to live his whole attack, whereas in idiopathic ..."

2. A Text-book of human physiology by Robert Tigerstedt, John R Murlin (1906)
"For the effects of sectioning the corpus callosum in cases of lesion of the cerebral cortex, see page 060. E. cortical epilepsy ..."

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)
"Fere states that in Jacksonian (cortical) epilepsy the patient is always awakened, so he is compelled to live his whole attack, whereas in idiopathic ..."

4. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"Notwithstanding, the attacks are not always of the character of cortical epilepsy. It should be remembered that injuries which do not harm the bony ..."

5. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... cortical epilepsy, choked disk, paresis of left leg; cortical epilepsy, optic neuritis, arterial hemiplegia; ..."

6. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"Attacks of cortical epilepsy may go on to general convulsions. cortical epilepsy is due to disease of circumscribed portions of the cortex or of the ..."

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