JACKSONIAN EPILEPSY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (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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