PSYCHOMOTOR EPILEPSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychomotor epilepsy mean? 

• PSYCHOMOTOR EPILEPSY (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOMOTOR EPILEPSY has 1 sense:

1. epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode; often involves purposeful movements of the arms and legs and sometimes hallucinations

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOMOTOR EPILEPSY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOMOTOR EPILEPSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode; often involves purposeful movements of the arms and legs and sometimes hallucinations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

psychomotor epilepsy; temporal lobe epilepsy

Hypernyms ("psychomotor epilepsy" is a kind of...):

epilepsy (a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions)