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Definition of Epilepsia major

1. Noun. Epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking.

2. Noun. A seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epilepsia Major

epilated epilates epilating epilating wax epilation epilations epilator epilators epilatory epilayer

epilayers epilemma epilemmal ending epilepidoma epilepsia epilepsia major (current term) epilepsia minor epilepsia partialis continua epilepsies epilepsy

epilepsy with grand mal seizures on awakening epilepsy with myoclonic absences epileptic epileptic dementia epileptic seizure epileptical epileptically epileptick epileptics epileptiform

Literary usage of Epilepsia major

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the practice of medicine by Frederick Taylor (1898)
"Epilepsy occurs in two well-marked forms, described as major and minor attacks—epilepsia major and epilepsia minor, or, in the terms of French writers, ..."

2. Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases: Their Causes, Symptoms by William Richard Gowers (1885)
"In severe attacks (epilepsia major, grand mal) both forms of spasm usually occur. The muscular contractions are of violent random character, ..."

3. A Text-book of practical medicine: Designed for the Use of Students and by Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1895)
"epilepsia major is more common than epilepsia mitior, and hereditary tendencies seem to predispose more to the former than to the latter. ..."

4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1889)
"Symptoms during life: epilepsia major ct minor; many attacks, followed by temporary aphasia and slight hemiparesis; not much headache; no hemianopsia; ..."

5. Birmingham Medical Review (1901)
"... epilepsia major) where the loss of consciousness is accompanied by convulsions. In a typical case the patient, with or without some preceding warning ..."

6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1886)
"The effects of this drug in a few cases of epilepsia major, although not marked, were very favorable and as the writer suggests, the symptoms of ..."

7. Elements of Latin for students of medicine and pharmacy by George D. Crothers, Hiram H. Bice (1898)
"The form of epilepsy sometimes known as epilepsia major, or grana, mal, is a nervous affection, characterized by a loss of consciousness, with convulsions. ..."

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