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FOCAL EPILEPSY
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
cortical epilepsy; focal epilepsy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
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)
