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PETIT MAL EPILEPSY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities)
Example:
she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood
Synonyms:
epilepsia minor; petit mal; petit mal epilepsy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("petit mal epilepsy" is a kind of...):
epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)
Meronyms (parts of "petit mal epilepsy"):
absence; absence seizure (the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy)
