FOCAL EPILEPSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does focal epilepsy mean? 

• FOCAL EPILEPSY (noun)
  The noun FOCAL EPILEPSY has 1 sense:

1. epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)

  Familiarity information: FOCAL EPILEPSY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOCAL EPILEPSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cortical epilepsy; focal epilepsy

Hypernyms ("focal epilepsy" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "focal epilepsy"):

focal seizure (transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "focal epilepsy"):

Jacksonian epilepsy (focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body)

sensory epilepsy (focal epilepsy initiated by somatosensory phenomena)

 Context examples 

Mutations in this gene are associated with cortical dysplasia-focal epilepsy syndrome and may be involved in autism and the DFNB13 form of nonsyndromic deafness.

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