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partial seizure

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Main Entry: partial seizure
Function: noun
: a seizure (as of Jacksonian epilepsy or temporal lobe epilepsy) that originates in a localized part of the cerebral cortex,that involves motor, sensory, autonomic, or psychic symptoms (as twitching of muscles, localized numbness, or auras), and that may or may not progress to a generalized seizure called also focalseizure
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partial seizure n.
Focal epilepsy.

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