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Definition of Status epilepticus
1. Noun. A condition in which there are continuing attacks of epilepsy without intervals of consciousness; can lead to brain damage and death.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Status Epilepticus
Literary usage of Status epilepticus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"status epilepticus: A CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL STUDY IN EPILEPSY. ... This study
embraces a total of seven cases of status epilepticus which died during ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1906)
"THE TREATMENT OF status epilepticus. BY ML PERRY, MD, Superintendent State Hospital
for Epileptics, Parsons, Kansas. The care and treatment of epileptics ..."
3. Epilepsy and Its Treatment by William Philip Spratling (1904)
"status epilepticus is the true climax of epilepsy; that is, an epileptic is
foredoomed to die of the status as the maximum development of the disease, ..."
4. Epilepsy by William Aldren Turner (1907)
"... cases—Organotherapy—Serotherapy—Treatment during the fit— status epilepticus—Of
the post-paroxysmal phenomena—Hygienic treatment—Education—Dietetic ..."
5. A Text-book of mental diseases by William Bevan Lewis (1890)
"... and Petit Mai — Post-paroxysmal Period—Post-epileptic Automatism — Case of
EC—status epilepticus—Inter- paroxysmal Stage—Epileptic Hypochondriasis, ..."
6. Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society (1907)
"V. EPILEPSY AND THE status epilepticus IN CONNECTION WITH PREGNANCY AND LABOUR,
WITH ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. By ROBERT JARDINE, MD, Professor of Midwifery in St ..."