Medical Dictionary
partial seizure
noun
Medical Definition of PARTIAL SEIZURE
: 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 focal seizure; compare generalized seizure
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