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There is temporal lobe epilepsy (which is the most common), frontal lobe epilepsy, parietal lobe epilepsy, and occipital lobe epilepsy. however, seizures are catagorized into two catagories: focal seizures and generalized seizures.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoSeizures are classified into two categories: focal and generalized. The focal seizures are the simple partial and the complex partial. The generalized seizures are the tonic clonic (more commonly known as the grand mal) and absence seizures ( more commonly known as petit mal).
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∙ 15y agoThe diffrent types of epilepsy are with convultion with frotting from the mouth and black outs.
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What is the medical term meaning epilepsy?
Epilepsy is itself a medical term. Epilepsy has many forms, so there are many individual types of epilepsy. Epilepsy is defined as the tendency to have recurring seizures. A seizure is not epilpesy. It is a symptom of epilepsy.
Grand mal and petit mal are to types of disease called?
Epilepsy, or seizure.
Is a generalized seizure characterized by a loss of consciousness?
epilepsy
Can sugar trigger a seizure in epilepsy?
no
What is a good sentence for epilepsy?
My friend has epilepsy, she had a seizure today at the carnival. my sister-in-law has epilepsy and she had a seizure while she was at the mall shopping my sister-in-law were out taking a walk along the beach her in her binki when she fell down and started to have a seizure on the beach
Do Convulsions occur with epilepsy?
During an epileptic seizure a person can have convulsions. There are different types of seizures, not all involve convulsions.
What are the immediate complication of epilepsy?
The immediate complication of epilepsy is simply the risk of getting a seizure :-)
Is having a seizure the same as having epilepsy?
Epilepsy is the tendency to have recurring seizures. If someone has one seizure and then never has one again, which can happen, they would not be said to have epilepsy. So it is people that keep having seizures that would be said to have epilepsy.
Form of epilepsy in which there is a loss of awareness without a seizure?
An absence seizure or a petit mal.
A seizure can be a signs of?
REcurring seizures would indicate that you have epilepsy. There are many forms of epilepsy and many causes of it. There are also many types of seizure. For each individual that gets seizures it is important for them to see a doctor to specifically try to identify the causes for them. one type of seizures is gand-mal
What are the effects of epilepsy?
Well, you get seizures. I guess that is the "effect". That is what happens when something triggers the epilepsy, you get a seizure.
Can meningitis cause seizure?
I have epilepsy and i abously hate it.
