Kojewnikoff's epilepsy

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• Epilepsy — (seizure disorder): When nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses at a rate of up to four times higher than normal, this causes a sort of electrical storm in the brain, known as a seizure. A pattern of repeated seizures is referred to as …   Medical dictionary

• Kojewnikoff, Kozhevnikov — Aleksei Y., Russian neurologist, 1836–1902. See K. epilepsy …   Medical dictionary

• epilepsia — SYN: epilepsy. [G.] e. partialis continua 1. a form of epilepsy marked by repetitive clonic muscular contractions with or without major convulsions; 2. simple partial motor status epilepticus of the rolandic cortex …   Medical dictionary