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JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jacksonian epilepsy mean? 

JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY (noun)
  The noun JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY has 1 sense:

1. focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the bodyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

cortical epilepsy; focal epilepsy (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))


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