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myoclonus
(redirected from Epileptic myoclonus)

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my·oc·lo·nus  (m-kl-ns)
n.
A sudden twitching of muscles or parts of muscles, without any rhythm or pattern, occurring in various brain disorders.

myo·clonic (m-klnk) adj.
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Noun1.myoclonus - a clonic spasm of a muscle or muscle group
cramp, muscle spasm, spasm - a painful and involuntary muscular contraction


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Epileptic myoclonus including juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, progressive myoclonic epilepsies (PME), epilepsia partialis continua, Rasmussen's encephalitis, early infantile myoclonic encephalopathy, infantile spasms (also known as West syndrome), Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, benign familial myoclonic epilepsy, and Angelman syndrome; and
 
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