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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 body
Familiarity information: JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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