/ English Dictionary |
COMPLEX ABSENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("complex absence" is a kind of...):
absence; absence seizure (the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy)