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Definition of Epileptic seizure
1. Noun. Convulsions accompanied by impaired consciousness.
Specialized synonyms: Epilepsia Major, Generalized Seizure, Grand Mal, Epilepsia Minor, Petit Mal
Group relationships: Epilepsy
Medical Definition of Epileptic seizure
1. A seizure that is caused by epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epileptic Seizure
Literary usage of Epileptic seizure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1898)
"... variety a particular disposition or attitude of the thumb and index finger ; (b)
in an epileptic seizure there is not such a particularity of onset. 3. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Does not a severe epileptic seizure leave a state of coma or apoplexy ? ...
In this place I beg to observe that an epileptic seizure taking place from home ..."
3. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"Cowers is of the opinion that it is the venous stasis which causes the tonic
convulsion in the second stage of the epileptic seizure to dissolve itself into ..."
4. Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms by William Richard Gowers (1885)
"The recognition of an epileptic seizure preceding the ... 118) may closely simulate
an initial slight epileptic seizure ..."
5. A Treatise on Hysteria and Epilepsy: With Some Concluding Observations on by James Leonard Corning (1888)
"... THE MECHANISM OF THE epileptic seizure. Enough has already been said concerning
the various morbid anatomical findings in epilepsy to prove conclusively ..."
6. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"Preceding an epileptic seizure minutes, hours, or days, a twilight state may ...
The epileptic seizure usually ends the mental disturbance, yet sometimes it ..."
7. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1888)
"Cox mentioned the case of a school girl who, having been treated too generously
by her friends, got an epileptic seizure which terminate'! in vomiting; ..."
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