单词 | pyknolepsy |
释义 | pyknolepsyn. Medicine. A form of epilepsy with frequent absence seizures, seen esp. in children; childhood absence epilepsy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > types of analepsya1398 static1728 grand mal1833 petit mal1874 pyknolepsy1922 1922 Q. Cumulative Index Current Med. Lit. 1921 533/2 (heading) Pyknolepsy. 1924 Brain 47 98 Pyknolepsy, in spite of its long duration and the great frequency of the attacks, does not impede mental development nor give rise to psychical defects. 1952 F. A. Elliott et al. Clin. Neurol. vii. 133 In pyknolepsy, the attacks cease with puberty and may not recur. 1975 S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry (ed. 2) IV. xiii. 320/2 The incidence of absence attacks varies from very few, often in the morning, to a great many, up to 100 or more per day (‘pyknolepsy’). 2006 Epilepsy & Behavior 8 466/1 Pyknolepsy, or childhood absence epilepsy, is one such disorder. Derivatives pyknoˈleptic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adjective] > fit or stroke > epilepsy > types of Jacksonian1877 procursive1888 pyknoleptic1924 musicogenic1937 audiogenic1941 photogenic1954 pressure spot1979 1924 Brain 47 98 Of the many that have been used the name pyknolepsy is recommended for use by English writers... It allows us to coin a handy adjective, ‘pyknoleptic’, by analogy with epileptic. 1972 P. H. Hoch Differential Diagnosis in Clin. Psychiatry iii. xiii. 395 Grand mal, petit mal,..or other subgroup forms..such as the narcoleptic, pyknoleptic and so forth—have a special metabolic formula of their nervous system. 1995 Amer. Jrnl. Human Genetics 57 368 We first studied 38 members of a four-generation LA-Belize family with classical JME but with no pyknoleptic absences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1922 |
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