Disease or Syndrome
generalized seizure
Definitions related to generalized seizures:
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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."CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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(generalized-onset seizure) A generalized-onset seizure is a type of seizure originating at some point within, and rapidly engaging, bilaterally distributed networks. The networks may include cortical and subcortical structures but not necessarily the entire cortex.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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A generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS) is a seizure type as identified by specific clinical and EEG criteria. Clinically, this seizure type classically involves loss of consciousness and a phasic tonic stiffening of the limbs (either symmetrically or asymmetrically), followed by repetitive clonic jerking. The vast majority of these...Athenahealth, Inc., 2019
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