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.

Generic synonyms: Epilepsy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Status Epilepticus

statuminating
stature
statured
statures
status
status ailment
status ailments
status asthmaticus
status bar
status bars
status candidates
status conference
status conferences
status effect
status effects
status epilepticus (current term)
status quo
status quo ante
status quo antes
status quos
status seeking
status symbol
status symbols
statuses
statusy
statutable
statutably
statute
statute(p)
statute book

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 ..."

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