CORTICAL EPILEPSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cortical epilepsy mean? 

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

1. epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORTICAL EPILEPSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Epilepsy in which the attacks begins with an isolated disturbance of cerebral function (as a twitching of a limb or an illusory sensation or a mental disturbance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cortical epilepsy; focal epilepsy

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "cortical epilepsy"):

focal seizure (transitory disturbance in motor or sensory function resulting from abnormal cortical activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cortical epilepsy"):

Jacksonian epilepsy (focal epilepsy in which the attack usually moves from distal to proximal limb muscles on the same side of the body)

sensory epilepsy (focal epilepsy initiated by somatosensory phenomena)