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Definition of Reflex epilepsy
1. Noun. A form of epilepsy in which attacks are induced by peripheral stimulation.
Medical Definition of Reflex epilepsy
1. Seizures which are induced by peripheral stimulation; e.g., audiogenic, laryngeal, photogenic, or other stimulation. Synonym: sensory precipitated epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflex Epilepsy
Literary usage of Reflex epilepsy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"We must hesitate to rank reflex epilepsy in the same class with the genuine form.
The whole subject of " reflex epilepsy " needs a new and thorough ..."
2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"... retardation or interference of its molecular vibration. tern and we can account
for reflex epilepsy perhaps as follows : Accordingly heat units or heat ..."
3. Special Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Domestic Animals by Ferenc Hutyra, Josef Marek (1913)
"reflex epilepsy is mostly associated with certain diseases of the mucous ...
The attacks in this kind of reflex epilepsy are usually not the result of a ..."
4. A Dictionary of Medicine: Including General Pathology, General Therapeutics by Richard Quain, Frederick Thomas Roberts, John Mitchell Bruce, Samuel Treat Armstrong (1894)
"A mistake is not dangerous, as the treatment will be very much the same, except
that in purely reflex epilepsy we have to fight against the périphérie cause ..."
5. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"reflex epilepsy belongs to the category of traumatic epilepsy. ... The convulsions
in man, which are regarded as reflex epilepsy in the restricted sense, ..."
6. The Practice of Medicine by Horatio C. Wood, Reginald Heber Fitz (1897)
"reflex epilepsy usually conforms in its type to the idiopathic disease ; its
nature is to be made out only by discovering and noticing the effect of the ..."
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