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pyknolepsy Med.|ˈpɪknəʊlɛpsɪ|
[ad. G. pyknolepsie (Schröder: see Monatsschr. für Psychiatrie und Neurol. (1916) XL. 281), f. Gr. πυκνός thick, crowded, after narkolepsie narcolepsy.]
An epileptic condition in which brief attacks similar to petit mal occur many times in a day. Hence pyknoˈleptic a.
1922Q. Cumulative Index Current Med. Lit. 1921 533/2 (heading) Pyknolepsy. 1924Brain XLVII. 98 Pyknolepsy, in spite of its long duration and the great frequency of the attacks, does not impede mental development nor give rise to psychical defects. Ibid., Of the many that have been used the name pyknolepsy is recommended for use by English writers... It allows us to coin a handy adjective, ‘pyknoleptic’, by analogy with epileptic. 1952F. A. Elliott et al. Clin. Neurol. vii. 133 In pyknolepsy, the attacks cease with puberty and may not recur. 1972P. H. Hoch Differential Diagnosis in Clin. Psychiatry iii. xiii. 395 Grand mal, petit mal,..or other subgroup forms..such as the narcoleptic, pyknoleptic and so forth—have a special metabolic formula of their nervous system. 1975S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) IV. xiii. 320/2 The incidence of absence attacks varies from very few, often in the morning, to a great many, up to 100 or more per day (‘pyknolepsy’). |