(medicine) A sensation of restlessness characterized by an inability to sit still/down or remain motionless/seated, arising from a subjective need or desire to move, often coinciding with the sensation of twitching of muscles, often as a side effect of psychiatric medications.
A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as severe and involve spasms and unconsciousness. A formal medical term would be tonic-clonic seizures.
(medicine, psychiatry) An anxiety disorder comprising symptoms of tachycardia, vertigo, and insomnia with no apparent physical cause; neurocirculatory asthenia.
(neurology) A form of epilepsy where the seizures are characterized as minor, the person becomes vacant or unaware, but not involving spasms and unconsciousness. These seizures are usually brief, lasting up to 30 seconds, and may include twitching. A formal medical term would be absence seizures.
(medicine, informal) Short for pseudostatus epilepticus. [(medicine) An episode of prolonged seizure which presents similarly to status epilepticus, but is of nonepileptic (and often psychogenic) origin.]
(medicine) A serious and potentially life-threatening condition in which an epileptic seizure becomes prolonged or multiple seizures occur successively without regaining of functions interictally.
(medicine) Of a type of epilepsy, characterised by the so-called rotatory seizures, where the patient paroxysmally and repeatedly walks in small circles.
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