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Clinical or subclinical disturbances of cortical function due to a sudden, abnormal, excessive, and disorganized discharge of brain cells. Clinical manifestations include abnormal motor, sensory and psychic phenomena. Recurrent seizures are usually referred to as EPILEPSY or seizure disorder.
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127 entry terms
- Seizure
- Absence Seizure
- Absence Seizures
- Atonic Absence Seizure
- Atonic Absence Seizures
- Atonic Seizure
- Atonic Seizures
- Clonic Seizure
- Clonic Seizures
- Complex Partial Seizure
- Complex Partial Seizures
- Convulsion
- Convulsion, Non-Epileptic
- Convulsions
- Convulsive Seizure
- Convulsive Seizures
- Epileptic Seizure
- Epileptic Seizures
- Generalized Absence Seizure
- Generalized Absence Seizures
- Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures
- Jacksonian Seizure
- Myoclonic Seizure
- Myoclonic Seizures
- Non-Epileptic Seizure
- Non-Epileptic Seizures
- Nonepileptic Seizure
- Nonepileptic Seizures
- Partial Seizure
- Partial Seizures
- Petit Mal Convulsion
- Seizures, Auditory
- Seizures, Clonic
- Seizures, Convulsive
- Seizures, Epileptic
- Seizures, Focal
- Seizures, Generalized
- Seizures, Gustatory
- Seizures, Motor
- Seizures, Olfactory
- Seizures, Sensory
- Seizures, Somatosensory
- Seizures, Tonic
- Seizures, Tonic-Clonic
- Seizures, Vertiginous
- Seizures, Vestibular
- Seizures, Visual
- Single Seizure
- Tonic Clonic Seizure
- Tonic Seizure
- Tonic Seizures
- Tonic-Clonic Seizure
- Tonic-Clonic Seizures
- Absence Seizure, Atonic
- Absence Seizure, Generalized
- Absence Seizures, Atonic
- Absence Seizures, Generalized
- Auditory Seizure
- Auditory Seizures
- Clonic Seizure, Tonic
- Clonic Seizures, Tonic
- Convulsion, Non Epileptic
- Convulsion, Petit Mal
- Convulsions, Non-Epileptic
- Focal Seizure
- Focal Seizures
- Generalized Seizure
- Generalized Seizures
- Generalized Tonic Clonic Seizures
- Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure
- Gustatory Seizure
- Gustatory Seizures
- Motor Seizure
- Motor Seizures
- Non Epileptic Seizure
- Non Epileptic Seizures
- Non-Epileptic Convulsion
- Non-Epileptic Convulsions
- Olfactory Seizure
- Olfactory Seizures
- Partial Seizure, Complex
- Partial Seizures, Complex
- Seizure, Absence
- Seizure, Atonic
- Seizure, Atonic Absence
- Seizure, Auditory
- Seizure, Clonic
- Seizure, Complex Partial
- Seizure, Convulsive
- Seizure, Epileptic
- Seizure, Focal
- Seizure, Generalized
- Seizure, Generalized Absence
- Seizure, Generalized Tonic-Clonic
- Seizure, Gustatory
- Seizure, Jacksonian
- Seizure, Motor
- Seizure, Myoclonic
- Seizure, Non-Epileptic
- Seizure, Nonepileptic
- Seizure, Olfactory
- Seizure, Partial
- Seizure, Sensory
- Seizure, Single
- Seizure, Somatosensory
- Seizure, Tonic
- Seizure, Tonic Clonic
- Seizure, Tonic-Clonic
- Seizure, Vertiginous
- Seizure, Vestibular
- Seizure, Visual
- Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic
- Seizures, Nonepileptic
- Sensory Seizure
- Sensory Seizures
- Single Seizures
- Somatosensory Seizure
- Somatosensory Seizures
- Tonic Clonic Seizures
- Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Generalized
- Tonic-Clonic Seizures, Generalized
- Vertiginous Seizure
- Vertiginous Seizures
- Vestibular Seizure
- Vestibular Seizures
- Visual Seizure
- Visual Seizures
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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specific seizure terms are also available
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History Note
1979; for CONVULSIVE SEIZURES & SEIZURES, CONVULSIVE use CONVULSIONS 1998-1999; for JACKSONIAN SEIZURE use EPILEPSY, PARTIAL 1992-1999; for SINGLE SEIZURE use EPILEPSY 2000-2017; for EPILEPTIC SEIZURES use EPILEPSY 1998-2017; for ABSENCE SEIZURES use EPILEPSY, ABSENCE 1992-2017
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Previous Indexing
- Convulsions (1966-1978)
- Epilepsy (1966-1978)
- specific epilepsy heading (1966-1978)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Seizures. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012640. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012640
- Seizures. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure
- Seizures. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279182