Disease or Syndrome
infantile spasm
in·fan·tile spasm
Definitions related to infantile spasm:
  • Seizures in the first years of life characterized by flexion and extension jerks of the neck, trunk, and extremities.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Infantile spasms represent a subset of epileptic spasms". Infantile Spasms are epileptic spasms starting in the first year of life (infancy)." [HPO:ihelbig]
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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