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juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

noun

Medical Definition of JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY

:  epilepsy that typically begins during adolescence or late childhood and is marked by myoclonic seizures which occur shortly after awakening and are often followed by tonic-clonic seizures or sometimes by absence seizures

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