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Definition of petit mal in English: petit malnoun ˈpɛti ˈmalˌpɛdi ˈmɑl mass noun1A mild form of epilepsy characterized by brief spells of unconsciousness without loss of posture. Compare with grand mal Example sentencesExamples - Doctors dispelled the depression as an extensive form of epilepsy, petit mal.
- This led in particular to a more detailed differentiation and classification of epilepsy, including terms still in use today, such as grand mal, petit mal, absence seizures, and status epilepticus.
- Epilepsy is called grand mal (major illness) or petit mal also called absence attacks.
- Nocturnal seizures can be grand mal, petit mal, partial-complex, vegetative or paroxysmal nocturnal dystonias.
- The terms seizure and convulsion include grand mal, petit mal, absence, myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and focal motor seizures and signs.
- 1.1count noun A petit mal epileptic fit.
he wasn't out of his petit mal yet Example sentencesExamples - On seeing it, I thought that it might have been a petit mal epileptic seizure, but the reports seem to rule that out.
- I can see some spark of petit mal beginning in those snuffles over there.
- I myself had pediatric petit mal epilepsy (It cleared as I went through puberty), and when I had my first long lasting seizure it was actually pretty undramatic.
- A is epileptic; he had daily petit mal seizures as a child which would case memory loss, so he is an unreliable witness.
- We're not too sure whether James had a petit mal seizure, (he suffers from epilepsy), on the bus on the way home from his post school option program.
Origin Late 19th century: from French, literally 'little sickness'. Rhymes Al, bacchanal, cabal, canal, Chagall, Chantal, chaparral, gal, grand mal, Guadalcanál, Hal, La Salle, mall, Natal, pal, pall-mall, sal, shall, Val Definition of petit mal in US English: petit malnounˌpɛdi ˈmɑlˌpedē ˈmäl 1A mild form of epilepsy characterized by brief spells of unconsciousness without loss of posture. Compare with grand mal Example sentencesExamples - The terms seizure and convulsion include grand mal, petit mal, absence, myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and focal motor seizures and signs.
- Nocturnal seizures can be grand mal, petit mal, partial-complex, vegetative or paroxysmal nocturnal dystonias.
- This led in particular to a more detailed differentiation and classification of epilepsy, including terms still in use today, such as grand mal, petit mal, absence seizures, and status epilepticus.
- Doctors dispelled the depression as an extensive form of epilepsy, petit mal.
- Epilepsy is called grand mal (major illness) or petit mal also called absence attacks.
- 1.1 A petit mal epileptic fit.
he wasn't out of his petit mal yet Example sentencesExamples - On seeing it, I thought that it might have been a petit mal epileptic seizure, but the reports seem to rule that out.
- I myself had pediatric petit mal epilepsy (It cleared as I went through puberty), and when I had my first long lasting seizure it was actually pretty undramatic.
- A is epileptic; he had daily petit mal seizures as a child which would case memory loss, so he is an unreliable witness.
- I can see some spark of petit mal beginning in those snuffles over there.
- We're not too sure whether James had a petit mal seizure, (he suffers from epilepsy), on the bus on the way home from his post school option program.
Origin Late 19th century: from French, literally ‘little sickness’. |