epilepsy

(ep'it-lep-sK) [G. epillpsia.] A chronic functional nervous disorder, characterized by attacks of unconsciousne or convulsions or Stedman's Medical Dictionary 329 both, and usually a ociated in the later stages with mental disturbance, abor'tive o., petit mal, a form in which the attacks are ot very short duration, sometimes only three or four seconds. accel'erative e., pro cursive e. cor'tical o., Jackson i an e., focal e. delayed e., e. coming on at puberty or later, even at the other extreme of sexual life, fo'cal e., cortical e., Jackson i an c. idiopath'ic e., typical c. occurring without any evident cause. Jackso'nian e., cortical or focal symptomatic e. in which the convulsions are not general, but confined more or le strictly to certain groups of muscles, laryn'geal e., laryngeal vertigo, la'tent e., masked e., petit mal, a form in which the attack is of short dviration, with very slight convulsive mo\ements. matu'tinal e., a form in which the attack occurs in the morning when the patient awakes, myoc'lonus c, a form a ociated with degenerative myoclonia, noctur'nal e., form in which the attacks occur during sleep, cL often unknown to the patient or made evident later only by the bitten tongue, periph'eral e., reflex e. pleu'ral e., convulsions following irrigation of the pleural cavity, procur's ive e., a form in which a minor attack (petit mal) is marked by the patient turning around two or three times, or running a short distance, psy'- chic e., (i) the occurrence of attacks of maniacal excitement, coming on alone or following minor attacks (petit mal); (2) somnambulic e. (3) epileptoid convulsions of a purely mental origin epilepsy due to suggestion or psychic contagion. re'flex e., a form in which the attacks are excited by some peripheral irritation, ret'inal e., a mild form in which the most striking symptom is a temporary blindne , sen's ory e., thalamic e. sleep e., narcolepsy, somnam'bulic e., petit mal, followed by a state resembling somnambulism in which the patient performs complicated acts naturally and well but of which he has no subsequent remembrance, spi'nal c, convulsions occurring in the course of lateral spinal sclerosis. Bymptomat'ic e., a form of e. due to obvious brain disease; Jackson i an e. tar'dy e., delayed e. thalam'ic e., sensory e., attacks of temporary mental disturbance marked by delusions of sensation. pilep'tic. I. Relating to or suffering from epilepsy A sufferer from epilepsy. 2. pilepticoccus (ep-i-lep-tJ-kok'us) The spore form. of Bacillus epileptic us. pUep'tiform [G. epilepsis, epilepsy, 4- L. form a, form.] Epileptoid. pileptogenic, epUeptogenous (ep-Hep-to-jen'ik, ep-I-lep-toj'en-us) [G. epilepsis, epilepsy, -Igennao, I produce.] Causing epilepsy. + pileptoid (ep-i-lep'toyd) [G. epilepsis, epilepsy, eidos, resemblance.] I. Resembling epilepsy, epileptiform; noting certain convulsions, espeAn cially of hysterical nature. 2. epileptic degenerate. pimandib'ular [G. epi, upon, -1- L. mandibulum, mandible.] Upon the lower jaw. + The pime'rite [G. epi, upon, meris, part.] attaching organ of a cephalont.;pimys (epl-mis) [G. epi, upon, + mys, mouse.] Mus, a genus of rats and mice of the family Muridce. E. norvegicus (Mus decuman us) is the common ship or sewer rat; E. rattus is the plague rat of India. pimysium (ep-I-miz'I-um) [G.,,epi, upon, + mys, muscle.] The fibrous envelope surrounding a secondary bundle of muscular ti ue. '