COMPLEX ABSENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complex absence mean? 

• COMPLEX ABSENCE (noun)
  The noun COMPLEX ABSENCE has 1 sense:

1. an absence seizure accompanied by other abnormalities (atonia or automatisms or vasomotor changes)

  Familiarity information: COMPLEX ABSENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEX ABSENCE (noun)

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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)