EPILEPTIC SEIZURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does epileptic seizure mean? 

• EPILEPTIC SEIZURE (noun)
  The noun EPILEPTIC SEIZURE has 1 sense:

1. convulsions accompanied by impaired consciousness

  Familiarity information: EPILEPTIC SEIZURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPILEPTIC SEIZURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convulsions accompanied by impaired consciousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("epileptic seizure" is a kind of...):

convulsion (violent uncontrollable contractions of muscles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "epileptic seizure"):

epilepsia major; generalized seizure; grand mal (a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body)

epilepsia minor; petit mal (a seizure of short duration characterized by momentary unconsciousness and local muscle spasms or twitching)

Holonyms ("epileptic seizure" is a part of...):

epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)

 Context examples 

Patients develop epileptic seizures and behavioral changes.

(Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The recordings have helped identify the source of a patient’s epileptic seizures as well as provide an opportunity to study how the brain encodes memories.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

An inherited or sporadic disorder characterized by epileptic seizures in the first four to six weeks of life.

(Benign Neonatal Epilepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

It is manifested with psychiatric symptoms and epileptic seizures.

(Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Recurrent conditions characterized by epileptic seizures which arise diffusely and simultaneously from both hemispheres of the brain.

(Generalized Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A drug used to treat epileptic seizures and bipolar disorder and to prevent migraine headaches.

(Depakene, NCI Dictionary)