| 单词 | absence seizure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabsence seizure b. Medicine. Sudden, very brief loss or alteration of consciousness, sometimes with small abnormal movements of the eyelids, head, or arms, which is the typical form of seizure in petit mal and certain other forms of epilepsy; an instance of this. Frequently attributive, esp. in absence attack, absence epilepsy, absence seizure. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > sudden and temporary absence1858 1858 C. B. Radcliffe Epilepsy & other Convulsive Affections (ed. 2) 151 This state of giddiness and absence and partial spasm..may end in positive drowsiness or actual sleep, but usually recovery is almost instantaneous. 1861 J. R. Reynolds Epilepsy iv. 214 These little ‘absences’ have gradually increased in frequency and severity, but at no one period have exhibited any considerable increase or alteration. 1874 Lancet 19 Sept. 411/2 This is a vertiginous condition, which is not without analogy to the petit mal or ‘absence’ of the epileptic. 1928 W. S. Dunn tr. L. Muskens Epilepsy xi. 296 In many of these ‘absences’ automatic movements such as chewing..may be continued. 1957 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 654/2 Such episodes are frequently referred to by parents, teachers or classmates of the afflicted child as ‘staring attacks’, ‘little absences’, ‘fainting turns’, ‘dizzy spells’, or ‘little blackouts’. 1968 Brain Res. 9 372 Behavioural components of the absence seizure. 1996 Pulse 20 Apr. 85/5 The classification has changed and the new preferred terms are generalised seizures, absence attacks and partial seizures. 2006 Dallas (Texas) Morning News (Nexis) 12 Feb. She was diagnosed with juvenile absence epilepsy at age 9. < as lemmas |
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