GENERALIZED SEIZURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does generalized seizure mean? 

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

1. a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENERALIZED SEIZURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

epilepsia major; generalized seizure; grand mal

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

epileptic seizure (convulsions accompanied by impaired consciousness)

 Context examples 

A generalized seizure disorder characterized by recurrent major motor seizures.

(Grand Mal Epilepsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Generalized seizure that manifests in a form of a brief episode of impairment of consciousness with or without accompanying motor phenomena such as clonic-tonic components, automatisms, or autonomic components.

(Petit Mal Seizure, NCI Thesaurus)