|
|
Definition of Grand mal
1. Noun. Epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking.
2. Noun. A seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body.
Definition of Grand mal
1. Noun. A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as severe and involve spasms and unconsciousness. A formal medical term would be tonic-clonic seizures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Grand mal
1. tonic-clonic seizure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grand Mal
Literary usage of Grand mal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"grand mal attacks, occurring chiefly at night, since age of fourteen, ...
In addition to grand mal attacks, with biting of tongue, falling, and sleep, ..."
2. 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 (1920)
"petit mal ceased, she had four or five grand mal attacks a day and later these
... Most of the cases reported on for epilepsy had a few grand mal attacks ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Individuals may fear a grand mal seizure because of the practical risk of falling
or incurring bodily injury, such as burns, ..."
4. Organic and Functional Nervous Diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"Inasmuch as peculiar mental states often follow attacks of both petit mal and
grand mal, it has been held by some authors that the psychic attack is always ..."
5. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1904)
"grand mal type. This is no doubt the common experience of those through whose
hands numbers ... 71 159 The grand mal type, therefore, when occurring alone, ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"RAPIDLY recurring nocturnal petit mal is a rare form of sleep epilepsy which
occurs both independent of, and in connection with, grand mal seizures. ..."
Other Resources:
