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petit mal epilepsy

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Noun1.petit mal epilepsy - epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities); "she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood"
epilepsia minor, petit mal
epilepsy - a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions
absence seizure, absence - the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy
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It is also used in combination with diphenylhydantoin or primidone (described earlier in this chapter) to control unmasked grand mal convulsions which occur in the majority of patients suffering from petit mal epilepsy.
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disturbance of consciousness in the brain) called petit mal epilepsy.
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Absence epilepsy," a generalized type of epilepsy once termed petit mal epilepsy, responds to ethosuximide (Zarontin[R]).
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