| 释义 |
‖ petit mal|pəti mal|
[Fr., = the little evil.]
The milder or imperfectly developed form of epilepsy, when the fits are abortive or incomplete: there is only momentary confusion or unconsciousness without general convulsions or other major manifestations.
[1842: see grand mal.] 1874J. Cunningham New Theory of Knowing 173 Some persons afflicted with the petit mal continue their work..after they have sunk into unconsciousness. [1878tr. H. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 190 From consideration of the ‘little attacks’ (petit mal).] 1879, etc. [see grand mal]. 1891Daily News 1 May 5/5 It is impossible in one examination to say whether a man suffers from petit mal. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 910 The attacks of petit mal which may accompany head-nodding. Ibid. VIII. 97 Paroxysmal vertigo in hysterical patients has been called hysterical petit-mal. 1927Daily Express 6 Aug. 7/6 She was suffering from a disease known as petit mal, which occasionally makes persons unconscious of their surroundings, and they then perform normal actions. 1957L. Durrell Justine iii. 160 An occasional headache only proved him to be a victim of petit mal—or some other such customary disease of the rich and idle. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 18 Jan. 19/1 In a ‘Petit Mal’ a child looking out of the window may see the nose of a passing bus come into his line of vision and then, straight away, the disappearing tail of the same bus. The only ill effect is that he probably gets ticked off for daydreaming. |