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absence (petit mal) seizure
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seizure characterized by a brief staring spell and a very brief loss of consciousness that usually occurs only in children and rarely continues beyond adolescence.
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atypical absence seizures
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a type of seizure characterized by a staring spell accompanied by other signs and symptoms, including brief warnings, peculiar behavior during the seizure, or confusion afterwards.
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aura
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a sensation of light or warmth or other perception that may be a warning of an attack of a migraine or an epileptic seizure.
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epilepsy
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a condition in which a person has spontaneously recurring seizures caused by a chronic underlying condition; characterized by recurrent episodes of convulsive seizures, sensory disturbances, abnormal behavior, and loss of consciousness; an uncontrolled electrical discharge from the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex is common to all types of epilepsy.
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generalized seizures
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seizures characterized by bilateral synchronous epileptic discharge in the brain with loss of consciousness for a few seconds to several minutes.
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partial seizures
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seizures that begin in a specific region of the cortex and may be confined to one side of the brain and remain partial or focal in nature, or they may spread to involve the entire brain.
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seizure
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a paroxysmal, uncontrolled electrical discharge of neurons in the brain that interrupts normal function leading to a sudden, violent involuntary series of contractions of a group of muscles.
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status epilepticus
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a state of continuous seizure activity or a condition in which seizures recur in rapid succession without return to consciousness between seizures.
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tonic-clonic seizure
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a seizure characterized by loss of consciousness and falling to the ground if the patient is upright, followed by stiffening of the body (tonic phase) for 10 to 20 seconds and subsequent jerking of the extremities (clonic phase) for another 30 to 40 seconds.
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