SEIZURE


Meaning of SEIZURE in English

noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

complex

The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.

A brief period of loss of contact as in complex partial seizures . 5.

The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.

It has been used as a secondary drug in complex partial seizures , with occasional benefit.

Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.

About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.

Behaviour in patients with complex partial seizures is usually more repetitive and stereotyped than in psychiatric illness.

Messner describes abrupt recurrences, rapid shifts of symptoms, and hallucinations in relatively untroubled personalities as supportive of complex partial seizures .

epileptic

Ten patients had hypoxaemic events induced by epileptic seizures .

Their adopted daughter, Melinda, died during an epileptic seizure .

Thus epileptic seizures often began with a sustained tachycardia in spite of apnoeic pauses and severe hypoxaemia.

There may be a gradual or prolonged build-up of the episode rather than the abrupt onset typical of an epileptic seizure .

In six epileptic seizures were difficult to control; in four they stopped after treatment with carbamazepine.

Ahmad once represented a dry cleaning branch manager who had an epileptic seizure on the job.

It may indeed have been caused by sunstroke or by an epileptic seizure .

In four of these hypoxaemia induced by epileptic seizure was recorded during subsequent events in hospital.

grand

These may be simple partial motor seizures , rather than grand mal seizures.

It is also effective in primary generalized grand mal seizures .

If only the grand mal seizures are uncontrolled, carbamazepine, phenytoin, or phenobarbital may be added to the valproic acid.

Phenobarbital is effective in partial seizures , partial seizures secondarily generalized, and primary generalized grand mal seizures.

Adequate control is very important, because grand mal seizures may harm the fetus or even precipitate fetal death.

partial

The clinical presentation of complex partial seizures is diverse and includes psychiatric, motor, and somatic signs and symptoms.

The control of the partial seizures was significantly better with carbamazepine than with phenobarbital, phenytoin, or primidone.

The psychiatric symptoms of complex partial seizures are said to be indistinguishable from those of true psychiatric disorders.

These may be simple partial motor seizures , rather than grand mal seizures.

Lindsay etal reported that 36% of children with complex partial seizures had interictal rage attacks.

Carbamazepine is the drug of first choice in partial seizures and partial seizures secondarily generalized.

About 30% of patients with complex partial seizures have a family history of epilepsy.

■ NOUN

land

Mr Mugabe has denied prior knowledge of the land seizures , although he said the government welcomed and supported the occupations.

Where Mr Mbeki is not at one with Mr Mugabe is over the economic cost of the land seizures .

■ VERB

generalize

Total elimination of seizures is often not a realistic goal in adults with partial or secondarily generalized seizures.

There are other kinds of generalized seizures that are basically inhibitory, like briefly turning off a switch.

It is also effective in primary generalized grand mal seizures .

The characteristics of generalized seizures are listed below and contrasted with events usually occurring in syncope. 1.

Rarely, focal, or generalized seizures 8.

This causes a generalized tonic-clonic seizure .

Phenobarbital is effective in partial seizures , partial seizures secondarily generalized , and primary generalized grand mal seizures.

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The raid led to the seizure of 25 kilograms of pure heroin.

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Based on efficacy and toxicity data, the recommended drugs in these seizure categories are carbamazepine and phenytoin.

Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure .

Hypercalcemia, rarely, may also cause seizures, possibly related to small cerebral vessel occlusion.

The judge ordered seizure of his assets totalling £36,200 or Fraser would serve a further 18 months in jail.

The offer came on the last day for objections to Mr Mugabe's seizure of 804 white-owned farms.

Total elimination of seizures is often not a realistic goal in adults with partial or secondarily generalized seizures.

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